Rose Thomas Bannister

Coffee Lover, Coffee Snob — Modo di Bere According to Michaele Weissman, the difference between snobbery and true love can be found at the bottom of a perfectly brewed cup.

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10 weeks after launching Modo di Bere Magazine, Michaele Weissman, author of THE book on specialty coffee, interviewed ☕️greats Peter Giuliano, Kent Bakke, Cate Razzook and Paul Scott (and also her accountant) while reporting her new article that we just published, “Coffee Lover, Coffee Snob.” Proud!

Spent yesterday furiously updating my website and listening to pharoah sanders for 10 hours, culminating in two offset plays of the 1968 Antibes concert. Either a Fibonacci sequence or an exorcism, I couldn’t decide

You’re good at picking friends

I’m really sad about TikTok. I realize I took it for granted that people just found me. On IG I feel like I have to personally network for every follower. It feels like my pals just disappeared in a landslide. And I’m small. Can’t imagine how sad it must be for ppl with large communities for years.

Lex, what’s the origin of your housing work?

Just signed up for Xiaohongshu. I actually think this could be a really interesting since my project is about learning local sayings.

TikTok was so clear what local languages they liked best: Texas German (a dying dialect) and regional Spanish swear words. My most popular videos by far. I hope everyone there finds my newsletter. I’m really gonna miss their great taste.

Yes please! Wait, 10% of your newsletter subscribers are paid? That’s amazing!

So many creative voices getting snuffed out just when we need creativity the most!

Kinda crazy that this may be the last video I post on TikTok. So much creativity sniffed out just when we need it most.

Hiiiiii

I visited Nigeria for the wine Amabile di Rosa. (there is a wine brand named after me in Africa! Read the story: mododibere.com)

I studied a little Yoruba before my visit. Abel helped show me around Lagos. When I asked Abel to share a proverb with Modo di Bere, this is the one he chose!

Seriously so good

Lex Roman’s newsletter “Journalists Pay Themselves” is incredibly helpful, and their live sessions are real community 💜

Sevilla featuring Eva + partner Peter. Look for Eva’s radiant smile on our TikTok, IG and YouTube shorts grids @mododibere for more local slang from Costa Rica!

A rooftop bar 5,000 miles from Costa Rica is named “Pure Life” and my friend Eva had to school me on Tico slang. “El Zarpe” is the last drink that’s never the last. Today I created the 3rd of 3 sayings videos from our night out during last summer’s flamenco class trip in the city of

Abaceria la Caraba, a perfect Andalusian bar with songbirds in little cages hanging from the sidewalk trees. This is Triana, a neighborhood I love. If you visit this bar and order the caracoles, let me know! 🐌

May someone appreciate you the way cantaor Juan Murube appreciates his caracoles! I was in Sevilla studying flamenco when Juan taught me how to eat snails: when to use the toothpick, how to bite off the end just before the “caquita”—or not. Just make sure you sip the caldo first. This bar is called

I’m a songwriter + sommelier living in Brooklyn. In 2023, I created Modo di Bere, a podcast, docuseries + magazine about regional culture through drinks and dialect.

Italy’s variety of wine grapes + languages has been my inspiration. I want to learn about your local drinks and local sayings! ❤️🍷🌹