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Steve MacDowall

Profile Information:

What is your position in the coffee industry?: coffee enthusiast
Where are you located? ( City and Country ): Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
How many years have you been in the industry?: many many years
If you are a barista or shop, are you interested in a barista exchange with another coffee shop/barista?: maybe
About Me:: I live on the east coast of Canada with my wife Beverly.
We raised three kids... been blessed with two grand-children.
We have one dog and two cats
I grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada with my sister Evelyn living in our parents home.
Evelyn my wiser and older sister lives in Scarborough. She's the editor of the Thursday File
Our small family moved to the east coast in October, 1988, when I took a job at Co-op Atlantic as Art/Creative Director, then after 13 years with the company I started working on my own from my home studio.
I paint in Watercolour, I publish the 'Thursday File'
What is your favorite thing about the coffee industry?: everything!
Website:: http://www.thursdayfile.ca

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Anya

Hi Steve.

What's happening on your side of the world?

Nov 17, 2008
Bob Arceneaux

That's a hard question! I've got a great El Salvadoran coffee called Cafe Indigo and a dynomite espresso called Gustav. That's the really, really short list.
b

Nov 17, 2008
Christopher D. Domingo

thank's Steve, looking forward meeting more people specially on the coffee industry from different part of the world. I hope we can exchange ideas how the coffee is growing from your region.

Nov 17, 2008
Rhobelyn T. Lazaro

Hi;

thank you for the warm welcome!!! Hope to see you and your place someday... I want to see how you do the coffee prep at Canada..

Nov 17, 2008
Jonathan wesley White

cheers, mate!
and greetings from the cold and snowy west coast of Michigan!

Nov 18, 2008
shei

My pleasure to be here Steve.-Greatings from Pi:)

Nov 18, 2008
Maria Jose Huezo

THank you Steve!
I see you are friends with BOB A.
Looking for Salvadoran Coffees? :)
you do know they ROCK, right?
Have a great week...

Nov 18, 2008
Jessica Hay

hey!
thanx for the greeting :P lol
32 years in coffee?!
thats amazing! :P

Nov 18, 2008
Petros

Hello Steve thanks for the greeting!

Nov 19, 2008
Julia Swan

Thanks Steve! If ever you make it to Seattle, WA, come check us out.

Nov 19, 2008
Marcelena

I appreciate the welcome, I may be somewhat new to the industry but I do know that coffee people always have a common thread as you have shown me! Thanks again!

Nov 19, 2008
Matt "The Birdman" Fleming

Thanks!

Nov 19, 2008
Jason Dominy

Thanks, and greetings back to the great hat of the U.S. :-)

Nov 19, 2008
Scott Davis

Thank you sir. It seems like you are quite the busy bee on here. What's your love for coffee?

Nov 19, 2008
Tammy Olivieri

Thank you I am excited about this site.

Nov 20, 2008
Benjamin H Wilkinson

Steve. I'm not sure it's necessarily worth the trip. Maybe once the store opens in January, it will be. I don't know. Thanks for your candid-ry. It's great.

Nov 20, 2008
Brandon D

thanks steve

Nov 23, 2008
Rich Abker

Hey Steve,

Thanks for your kind words on my photographs.

My Dad used to work in Walkerville, Ontario many years ago for Hiram
Walker, distillers of Canadian Club. He commuted via the Holland Tunnel.
If you ever get to Seattle look me up.

Nov 23, 2008
Tom Kelly

Cheers Steve,
plenty more on the way....!!!!

Nov 24, 2008
Ross Bright

Hi Steve, 32 degrees in Sunny Singapore, Hope the lattes are warm and the skiing fantastic

Nov 24, 2008
BR-

Hi !! ^^
Thank you..
Nice to meet you . ;;
I love coffee, too .. And dog,, cat.. ;;

Nov 25, 2008
Munzer

Hi Steve
Thank you for your welcoming and my greetings to you all members
Nice to meet and best wishes

Nov 25, 2008
Ed

Thanks Steve!

Nov 25, 2008
KARIPOGLOY VASILIS

thanks for the welkome.nice to meet you.

Nov 25, 2008
Sean Marshall

Hey Steve, thanks, nice to meet you!

Nov 26, 2008
Kate Stylee

Thanks a bunch for the warm welcome!!

Nov 26, 2008
Alan Wright

Hi Steve

Alan here from the East Coast of England. Many thanks for your welcome note. Never mind a french press get yourself a proper machine!!!!!!!!!!!! a good espresso!!!!

Nov 26, 2008
Domagoj Trusic

Did you read my kopi luwak post?
You are old scheff and I am rooky on this gourmet subject!
Read my post please!
Have a nica day from Croatia...
... see you on coffee ha,ha,ha

Nov 26, 2008
Domagoj Trusic

globaly its 80-20 mixtures we have influence from Italy I live 50 km from I. in small town Rijeka,all the Italian bland are in (Lavazza,Illy,Hausbrandt...) lots of small torefattorie but still with bad coffee and they run to gold now, I like Haiti Blue pine forest that I heandlled for CBC for WBC...
you?

Nov 26, 2008
NIKOLIS ATHANASIOS & jim

hi from greece my griend,

Nov 26, 2008
Adriano Arronte

Thank you for your welcome Steve, much appreciated.

Nov 27, 2008
Ben

And gretting back from Toronto (or close enough). How are things out east?

Nov 27, 2008
Sylvia Gutiérrez

Hello from Mexico! Thanks for your message.

Nov 27, 2008
Greg Romano

Thanks, buddy.

Nov 27, 2008
pan

thank you steve. its nice to be here. congratulations on raising a family. i have a daughter who is 8 years old and already smarter than me. like the watercolors and yout 'thursday file' website. kind regards pan

Nov 28, 2008
Ed Whitman

Hello, nice to meet you.

Nov 28, 2008
Phil B

Hello Steve, Looking forward to surf this site for new friends and new ideas on coffee. Cheers

Nov 28, 2008
Nichola

Right back at you from the Eastern U.S.A. Stay warm! Brrrrrrr.

Nov 28, 2008
Paul

Hello!

Nov 28, 2008
Kane Blaber

Hey man, cheers for the message :-D, hope all is well up north and yeah, hope to chat soon :-)

Kane

Nov 30, 2008
Stephen Schulman

Thank you. It was a cool trip to El Salvador and Guatemala a few years ago.

Nov 30, 2008
ROGER ALBA

HI STEPHEN YOU SHOULD SEE HOW THE COUNTRY HAVE IMPRUVE IN COFFEE QUALITY , WE HAVE NOW SEVERAL SPECIALTIES LIKE DOMINICAN BLU WICH IS AN AGED COFFEE OF 2003 CROP ,KAROMA , AND SOME BIODINAMIC COFFEE.
WHICH GIVE YOU A SPECIAL CUP OF DREAMS...

Dec 1, 2008
mike richey

Well, thank you for adding me!! I am new to this, a friend of mine told me about the site and i thought i would check it out. All i hope to acheive is to learn more about some latte art and direction to try some diffrent coffee's

Dec 1, 2008
Anthony Kurutz

Greetings back from the big apple.

Dec 1, 2008
Zan

Hi Steve

Thank you for add .If you have a chance come to Thailand I invite you to my coffee house .

Dec 1, 2008
Ray Hencken

Hey Steve! Greetings from Emmaus, PA!

Dec 1, 2008
Chris Dodson

Well then! Great greetings from Virginia! Stay warm up there, drink lots of coffee!

Dec 1, 2008
alvin baldago

thanks for your message.your my first friend in the site,hope your fine,hopefully i can work there as barista very soon

Dec 1, 2008
Rod Hanson

Hey Steve, now all you need is a Harley!!! How's the skiing up there?

Dec 2, 2008
Alun Evans

Been open a while here now...up to around 70 stores. We (the Independents) can not complain... there was no specialty movement in Indonesia before. its not like NZ or Aussie where Starbucks were late and got canned like a naughty school boy! They have helped with developing the market here, we need to say thanks to them for that. In Italy the general concensus there was Howard Schultz was an enemy of the state (due to his comments earlier in the year where he said Starbucks Coffee was better than most Italian blends/brands.... or apparently thats what he said?!)

Dec 3, 2008