Melissa’s motivation
“THE BEST BARISTAS ARE THOSE WHO WANT TO GET TO THE CORE OF THEIR PROFESSION, BE WILLING TO PUSH THE BOUNDARIES, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, BE SELF DRIVEN. YOU CAN’T TEACH THAT.”
As a young child, Melissa Caia would watch her father prepare his morning coffee before he went to work at the family fruit and vegetable market.
“I would smell the aroma of coffee at 2am when dad would wake up. He would put the coffee pot on the stove, have a shower, then you’d hear the moka pot brewing. He had the same routine each morning – stir the coffee, tap the spoon, then sip it,” Melissa says.
She was too young to critique her father’s coffee preparation skills, but little did she know that one day her sensory abilities to taste, prepare, and judge coffee would take her around the world and provide her with experiences she never knew existed.
Melissa is the Coffee Academy Teacher Coordinator at William Angliss
