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STiR tea & coffee industry international 81 Emerson Leonard Sales Director What's the STiR in the next issue... Uniformity: What if every green bean in the bag was color-sorted and virtually identical? Would it make a better cup? STiR tests a roaster's dream. Jane Pettigrew describes cold-weather cultivation in Scotland, a hearty place for tea... Dan Bolton writes about coffee culture in Dubai... Barbara Dufrene describes a tea rennaissance in France... Jenny Neill looks at Asian adaptations of the Western cafe and Helen Xu Fei visits Zhejiang. Jane Pettigrew Tea Correspondent Jane is a London-based tea spe- cialist, writer, and consultant who has authored several books. Katrina is a freelance writer, editor, tea blogger and author who is based in Boston. Seattle-based Jenny chases stories on wellness and business with an interest in sustainability. Contributors Jenny Neill Coffee Correspondent Katrina Avila Munichiello US-based Emerson is director of sales at October Multimedia representing STiR Tea & Coffee and COTECA (Coffee Tea Cocoa/ Global Industry Expo). Boonthin is director of October Inter Co. Ltd. and the liaison with STiR's Bangkok service providers. Helen is a China tea specialist, author, and member of the Shanghai Tea Institute, living in Singapore. Glenn Anthony John has decades of experience in magazines as editor and publisher at international trade magazines, including those for the tea & coffee industry. He founded Tea & Coffee Asia in 1999. In 2012 he founded STiR Tea & Coffee. Dan edited Specialty Coffee Retailer and was publisher of Tea Magazine and World Tea News. He is a beverage retail consultant, frequent speaker at conferences and edits the weekly Tea Biz blog. He lives in Winnipeg, Canada. Art director Somjet Thitasomboon beautifully puts together everything in STiR Tea & Coffee, from sunny California. S T A F F Boonthin Tubsongkroh Director Dan Bolton Managing Editor Glenn Anthony John Publisher Helen Xu Fei Correspondent and Translator Somjet Thitasomboon Art Director Kelly Stein Kelly Stein is STiR's Latin American Correpondent based in São Paulo, Brazil.