Texts by the author
Six articles by Marco De Sousa Rosa, published here as they were written. They are a practitioner's points of view, signed and dated; they do not replace the sourced plates, they say where the person who built them is speaking from.
Marco De Sousa Rosa · Article, 2026
What goes unsaid about the price of specialty coffee
For a long time, I believed that the price of specialty coffee was a matter of quality. The better it tastes, the higher the price, the more flows back to the producer. A kind of natural justice…
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Marco De Sousa Rosa · Article, 2026
The coffee we think we already know
Habits, cultures and the transmission of taste
There are products we discover, and others we think we already know.
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Marco De Sousa Rosa · Article, 2026
Growing without burning
What really changes when the scale changes
Growing without burning: what really changes when the scale changes, in either direction
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Marco De Sousa Rosa · Article, 2026
The counter is a stage
Why automation works in the kitchen and stalls at the bar
There is a conversation I have several times a year, and it almost always unfolds in the same order.
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Marco De Sousa Rosa · Article, 2026
A cup defect is rarely decided in the cup
From the resting of the cherry in Nicaragua to the crema of an automatic machine
Two years ago, we had a problem at each end of the chain, and no one saw that it was the same one.
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Marco De Sousa Rosa · Article, 2026
Seven ancestors, and what we conclude from them too quickly
What Brazil's genetic base says, and what it does not say
There is a scene I live through several times a year, and it always begins with a sheet of paper.
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