coffee history
Seattle Coffee Guide: The Personalities
The people behind Seattle's coffee culture
The game changerHoward Schultz, CEO, Starbucks After he fell in love with the café culture in Italy in the early ’80s, Schultz introduced Seattle (and the U.S.) to lattes and popularized the concept of the “third place”—a caffeine-centered community gathering spot. With shops seemingly in every mall, on every airport concourse and at every urban…