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Baristas: The daily grind

What the person making your coffee is really thinking.

What is the person making your coffee secretly thinking about you? Which orders make their heart sink?

Emily Thomas is joined by three top baristas in Dublin, Brazil and India. They explain how making coffee was once seen as a low-wage, unskilled job in much of the world, but these days, it holds a certain cache. But what's driving the meteoric rise of the barista - and who ultimately is benefitting? Most still earn a very low wage - like many of the farmers producing the coffee - whilst big chains thrive.

(Photo: Barista Daniel Horbat makes a cup of coffee. Credit: Kristaps Selga/ World Coffee Events/ 大象传媒)

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26 minutes

Last on

Sun 28 Jul 2019 07:32GMT

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  • Thu 25 Jul 2019 02:32GMT
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  • Sun 28 Jul 2019 07:32GMT

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