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Coffee News Recap, 13 Jun: Gesha scores 98 points at 2025 BoP, potential IPO for Pret A Manger & other stories

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The pioneering farm first broke records in 2004, when it sold one of its Geshas for US $21/lb, making it the world’s most expensive coffee at the time. JAB hired bankers to attract new investors as it considers an IPO for the coffee and food to-go chain. Top stories of the week Mon, 9 Jun – Gesha scores 98 points at 2025 BoP.

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David Chang’s Memoir Fails to Account for the Trauma He Caused Me

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I am definitely not the intended audience for Eat a Peach : In 2008, I was hired as the corporate beverage director for Chang’s young empire; I held this job for seven months before I was fired without explanation. David Chang’s new memoir grapples with the white-hot fury that defined most of his career.

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

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Now, its mission is linked more than ever to fine dining destination Blue Hill at Stone Barns and a famous chef’s vision for trickle-down change. On the morning of February 7, 2020, office employees at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture filed one by one into meetings with management. Some came out crying. It was not a gentle pivot.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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But former employees say that narrative often obscured a more complicated reality. This story contains a detailed account of a sexual assault. In November 2013, a 22-year-old cook named John Schaible arrived in Pocantico Hills, New York, to work at Blue Hill at Stone Barns. All I could think about is how sad it is.

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The Boundary Pusher

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Peter Meehan’s transgressive vision helped redefine food media with the groundbreaking Lucky Peach , and later transformed the LA Times ’s food coverage. But that vision came with a toxic management style characterized by intimidation, a barrage of sexualized commentary, and explosive anger, according to two dozen current and former staffers.

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The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies

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Flip (1909), in which a fed-up waitress who’s being harassed shoves a pie into the face of her tormentor, or The Gold Rush (1925), in which silent film icon Charlie Chaplin makes a soup of his own shoe , ladling the “broth” over the boiled boot before eating it with a knife and fork for Thanksgiving dinner. Well, that really depends.

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