50 Best Stories Goes Beyond the Bean

50 Best Stories, the editorial arm of The World's 50 Best Restaurants, followed Kyle and Katina Connaughton, the chef and farmer behind California's three Michelin starred SingleThread, as they travelled to Peru with Chefs for Change to trace the production of coffee and cacao, and to see how education is helping local farming communities.

Difference Coffee provides the expert voice on why that education matters. Founder Amir Gehl, described in the piece as sourcing the world's best coffee beans for restaurants such as Mugaritz and Arpège, observes that "a lot of chefs are in the dark when it comes to coffee": there is no coffee education where chefs can learn about quality grading, and when he presents coffee to chefs he sees an a-ha moment, where they suddenly view coffee as an ingredient like all those they cook with. The Connaughtons, the article records, experienced a similar lightbulb moment in Peru.

Read the full feature at The World's 50 Best Restaurants