cafe

Photo taken by Anna Song: A café in the Marais in January. (Figure 1) Nashville, as a developing city, is home to various specialty coffee shops such as Crema Coffee Roasters and Barista Parlor. While studying at Vanderbilt and living in the city of Nashville, I started to interact more closely with the Third Wave coffee culture in the city. I visited many local specialty coffee shops and tasted beans from various roasters. I perceived myself as an insider of the coffee world, yet my study abroad experience in Paris brought me new perspectives of coffee drinking culture. Cafés à…