Let's Talk About Ourselves....
Published by Tanya in Coffee Insurrection Hero · 20 July 2021
Tags: CoffeeInsurrection, Specialty_coffee, Interview, Community
Tags: CoffeeInsurrection, Specialty_coffee, Interview, Community
In the last month, we’ve been interview by the amazing team of Comunicaffè, an Italian online newspaper that cover everything coffee related (but that’s also about cocoa, sugar and tea). The interview is being published originally in Italian and then in English in the International page of Comunicaffè.
You can read here an extract from the Interview.
MILAN – Endri and Tanya, the creators of the online platform for the community of the international specialty Coffeeinsurrection, have a common past: for 17 years they have revolutionized their lives for a passion for quality coffee. Leaving their jobs in a pharmaceutical warehouse, they slowly began to follow their true vocation: he is a chef, she is a specialty barista. A professional path that has taken them far away, outside Italy, where this reality is seriously perceived behind the counter. First in Berlin, at The Barn, their trip collided with Covid. A pandemic that undoubtedly hit the horeca department, but which however served them as “the right moment” to build a website born to become a meeting point site for all specialty lovers. We talked about it directly with the creative couple.
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They say: “Every time we visit a city we always inform ourselves in advance about the local specialty coffee scene and, although there are similar sites at least for what concerns European cities, we wanted something more “complete”, which not only listed places, but also provided some more information.
In finding ourselves choosing the cities to list, we just followed our hearts, starting from our favorites. Paris, New York, Berlin, Hawaii, and gradually many others. Right from the start we paid a special attention to Italy, trying to list as many places as possible, even in small towns or more remote areas.
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We are still a small global reality, and it is important that we all understand that it is not a matter of “one vs. each other” to be (let’s say) the best in town, but it is more a question of “us vs. them”. The specialty coffee world is based upon an attention to the entire production chain, a care about sustainability and an attention to the individual; and in a way is against large multinationals, against the exploitation of people and territories, against bad quality coffee. And here comes into play our second goal: trying to make the specialty world known to as many people as possible, intriguing them and showing them that there is another way.
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Same goes with the interviews, and the blog. We want to be a voice for all members of the community. We want to talk about coffee, about experiences. We want to tell stories. We want our website to become the voice of the community. Anyone who wants to contact us (proposing topics, asking us to review coffees, places and so on) and follow us, can easily do so through the Instagram Coffee Insurrection page, and through the homonymous page on other social networks.”
If you wanna read more, head to the English Translation
or to the original Italian version.