Meet Bean & Leaf.
We’re a magazine for the coffee and tea drinker or anyone attracted to café culture and the industry. It is our mission to complement our reader’s daily cup by informing and entertaining with word and picture. Just as cafés serve as local gathering places, B&L fosters that same community, looking to bring 
together those in the coffee and tea industry, as well as the everyday enthusiast and all those in between.
We want to celebrate our first sip with you. If your B&L copy boasts wrinkled, brown-tinted pages and faint coffee rings on the cover, then we’ve done our job. We think our magazine reads best when stained and wafting the aroma of espresso or spiced tea with every page turn. We think B&L belongs on your shelves, bookended by well-loved novels and old coffee canisters. We see its pages folded and worn, sticking out from your sketchbook.
Coffee and tea are important to you. Grinding and brewing, boiling and steeping have become daily rituals. This is how you wake up and wind down, and we think that deserves our full attention. The trends in the industry are constantly changing, and stories of its growers, roasters, owners, innovators and consumers continue to surface. More than just beans and leaves, we’re a magazine that celebrates people’s stories and one of the most delicious aspects of life.
In this issue, we’re focusing on coffee and tea below the Mason- Dixon Line. The Northwest may be the better-known café hub, but the South can hold its own with a culture rooted in a rich coffee and tea industry. This issue of B&L acquaints you with some of the region’s best cafes and companies, and you know we had to explore the South’s favorite tradition—sweet tea, y’all. Although we couldn’t find a place for fried okra or honky-tonks in this issue, other Southern icons weren’t a problem. A few ice cubes, cooled coffee leftovers from the morning and a splash of cream taste better from a Mason jar.
If you’ve had enough Southern hospitality, keep reading for nationwide industry trends, topics and traditions, or go straight to our ‘In the Café’ section for some artistic inspiration.
Join us, and raise your mugs. Here’s to the first sip.
Best,
Kelsey Snell
Editorial Staff
Kelsey Snell, Editor
Isaac Adams
Lucie Shelley
Molly Green
Miranda Murray
Bailey Holman
Margaret Croom
Design Staff
Kelly McHugh, Art Director
Anne Marie Gaines, Asst. Art Director
Courtney Tye
Lydia Harrell
Rebecca Riddle
Chelsea Pro
Photography
Lauren Vied
Rebecca Yan
Web
Ana Rocha