Coffee Lit. Rev.

Chris and Doran are joined by Kim Elena Ionescu to discuss, "Explaining the willingness of consumers to bring their own reusable coffeecups under the condition of monetary incentives", appearing in J. Retail. Consum. Serv., 2022, 66, 102908. The article can be found here: ⁠https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2022.102908 About Kim: She is the Chief Sustainability and Knowledge Development Officer at Specialty Coffee Association, and is heavily involved in various aspects of education within the association. Prior to the SCA she also worked for Counter Culture Coffee. Introduction preamble: Ulf Danialsonn.

Chris and Doran are joined by Camila Khalifé to discuss, "Unmanned aerial vehicle to evaluate frost damage in coffee plants", appearing in Precis. Agric., 2021, 22, 1845. The article can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-021-09815-w About Camila: Camila founded Botánica in Quito, Ecuador, and is also a Coffee Quality Institute Quality Evaluation Assistant Instructor. Introduction preamble: Roderick Mackinnon.

Chris and Doran are joined by Mark Weislogel to discuss his work over the years, neatly summarized in the paper, "How advances in low-g plumbing enable space exploration", published in npj Microgravity, 2022, 8, 16. The article can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-022-00201-y About Mark: Mark was a professor of mechanical engineering for over 20 years, before moving to work full time at IRPI, a company that develops technology solutions for plumbing in low gravity. He also invented that cup. Introduction preamble: Dale Cooper.

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

Welcome to Coffee Lit. Rev. This is a science podcast that seeks to unpack a recent scientific article related to coffee. Each week we will have guest hosts and do our best to communicate with both the scientific and coffee communities. Please consider following us on Instagram, X, and Patreon. There, our handle is coffeelitrev. Sincerely, Chris and Doran