Barista
The Barista.
From the old far-west saloons to the night-clubs which enlighten the darkest nights in Hopper’s paintings; from the classical pubs right in the middle of Main Street, packed with old men playing cards, to the hipster cafeterias downtown New York… everyone who enters a place that serves coffee, cocktails or beverages, expect to find himself in front of someone willing to listen.
And usually, this happens.
Too often, however, we tend to forget that we’re talking with someone just like us, a poor human being that, like everyone else, is at the mercy of his feelings.
Problems, satisfactions, joys and sorrows stay with him in his daily life; he’s got hobbies and interests; maybe he’s in love, maybe he loves to travel…
He’s someone that, probably, just need one of his usual customers to ask him about his day, about the last book he read or about his favourite movie…
And if only we took a little time to do this, who knows how many interesting things we may find!
So, that’s how this sections was born: a series of short interviews to baristas from cafeterias all around the world, with some question about coffee and about being a barista, and some other curiosity that has nothing to do with it!
A string of friendly faces and questions with no apparent logic at all that, hopefully, will help us to understand better who a barista is and, most of all, that will teach us to stop to take him for granted.
So, like any other day, let’s go to have a chat with a barista… but please, this time, let him do the talking.