"In a piece for The Atlantic, staff writer Ellen Cushing explores the political and environmental challenges to coffee production and examines the beverage's paradox: it's essential to most people's daily routines yet offers virtually no nutritional value. Cushing describes coffee as a "fascinating symbol of the interdependence, and the limitations, of an internationalized food system and the free-trading global order.""
"Filipino coffee shops across the U.S. are helping to lead the way on nationally trendy flavored drinks like ube and cassava cake lattes to meet consumer expectations and appeal to Gen Z's growing interest in Filipino cuisine, according to an Eater report. Brazilian trading company Timbro is leveraging record coffee prices and trade volatility from U.S. tariffs to enter the coffee export market, aiming to trade approximately 80,000 60-kilogram bags in its first year, according to a Reuters report."
Coffee production faces mounting political and environmental challenges that threaten supply and underscore the beverage's role in a globalized trade system. Coffee remains a ubiquitous, low-nutrition daily ritual while reflecting interdependence and limitations of international food systems. Filipino coffee shops in the U.S. are popularizing ube and cassava cake lattes to meet consumer demand and appeal to Gen Z's interest in Filipino cuisine. Brazilian trading firm Timbro is entering coffee exports amid record prices and trade volatility, planning to move roughly 80,000 60-kilogram bags in its first year. Merit Coffee plans two Houston locations in 2026. Austin is advancing zoning reforms to ease neighborhood cafes.
Read at Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine
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