A conversation with the 2026 World Cezve Champion Jane Espante
Jane Espante reflects on her World Cezve Championship win, competition life, and what it means to represent the UAE on a global coffee stage.
January 29, 2026
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The myth of community in specialty coffee
Specialty coffee likes to describe itself as a community. But when you look past the language and pay attention to how ideas actually move forward, a different reality appears. Progress isn’t driven by goodwill. It’s driven by money, risk, and a small number of people willing to move first without knowing whether it will work. Everyone else benefits later, once the cost has already been paid. That dynamic produces activity and visibility, but it doesn’t produce shared responsibility. And without shared responsibility, what remains isn’t a community at all.
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