Stay ConnectedA review of a recent scientific article published about or adjacent to coffee. Each episode features a guest professional who will help discuss the paper. Sometimes there will be other guests to discuss news, current events, and topical items.
Podcast by Christopher H. Hendon. Produced by Doran Pennington.
Copyright: © Christopher Hendon, Doran Pennington, and a rotating professional.
Chris and Doran are joined by Masha Zanozina to discuss, "Impact of the human factor on the reproducibility of different coffee brewing methods", appearing in J. Food Comp. Anal., 2023, 124, 105698.
The article can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfca.2023.105698
About Masha: Masha works for Counter Culture Coffee in Los Angeles as their regional sales and account manager, is a certified trainer, and a World Brewers Cup judge.
Introduction preamble: Jase Robertson.
Chris and Doran are joined by Carly Green to discuss, "Arabica-like flavour in a heat-tolerant wild coffee species", appearing in Nat. Plants, 2021, 7, 413.
The article can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00891-4
About Carly: Carly worked for Blue Bottle Coffee as their is a green coffee coordinator and lab manager, and is now in the Netherlands running Cherry Love Coffee.
Introduction preamble: Paulie Gualtieri.
Chris and Doran are joined by Kyle Glanville to discuss, "Development of a coffee bean certified reference material (KRISS CRM 108-10-023) for elemental analysis", appearing in Anal. Bioanal. Chem., 2024, 416, 475.
The article can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-023-05051-5
About Kyle: Kyle is a founder of G&B and Go Get Em Tiger, a cafe brand based in Los Angeles. He is also the US Barista Champion of 2008 — "Low" by Flo Rida and T-Pain topped the charts that year.
Introduction preamble: Dorris Lessing
Chris and Doran are joined by Jesse Han to discuss, "Prediction of specialty coffee flavors based on near-infrared spectra using machine‐ and deep-learning methods", appearing in J. Sci. Food Agric., 2021, 101, 4705.
The article can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.11116
About Jesse: He is a Ph.D. student at Harvard University studying Astronomy. He was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Fluid Dynamics in 2017 for showing that coffee will not spill out of a cup if you walk backwards while holding it.
Introduction preamble: Richard Feynman
Chris and Doran are joined by Andrew Tolley to discuss, "Impacts of quaker beans over sensory characteristics and volatile composition of specialty natural coffees", appearing in Food Chem., 2021, 342, 128304.
The article can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2020.128304
Introduction preamble: Edward Teller
Chris and Doran are joined by Nicole Battefeld-Montgomery to discuss, "The role of fines in espresso extraction dynamics", appearing in Sci. Rep., 2024, 14, 5612.
The article can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55831-x
Introduction preamble: Roald Hoffmann
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