Q&A with specialty coffee guru, Peter Giuliano

A serendipitous encounter at a California coffee shop sparked the beginning of Peter Giuliano’s formidable 30-year-plus specialty coffee career. The Executive Director at the Coffee Science Foundation and Chief Research Officer at the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) speaks to World Coffee Portal about the importance of continual learning and why diversity is the industry’s greatest asset

What have been some of the formative moments of your coffee career? 

I grew up in Southern California near San Diego and there was coffee shop I used to visit with my friends. One day somebody didn't show up for work and the manager asked if I would like to work a shift. I skipped college, they threw me an apron, and I have worked in coffee ever since.