Female commander of good beans, late blossoms, boutique coffee beans.

"the second wave" also has a heavyweight coffee woman Knudsen. She and Pitt are both contemporary coffee people. The difference is that Pitt grew up playing with coffee, but Knudsen was a late bloomer. At the age of five, his family emigrated to New York from Norway. When he was young, he worked on Wall Street, worked as a model and was married three times. In 1968, Knudsen, who was in his early forties, moved to San Francisco and came into contact with coffee as a secretary at a large coffee and spice import company.

She hates the stench of Robasta, the biggest seller, but fortunately the company still imports a small amount of top Arabica for cafes run by European immigrants in San Francisco. In order to introduce the flavor of top beans to her clients, she studied the cup test with the encouragement of her boss. She was surprised that the coffee would show different flavors due to the different soil and water elevation and climate in the planting area, which was quite interesting. She fell in love with the coffee fragrance.

With his excellent sense of taste and smell, coupled with his excellent taste spectrum memory, Knudsen submitted a cup test report to his clients, which was extremely accurate and won a good reputation, and was known as the "commander of the good bean girl". He was sure to find her if he wanted to buy top coffee. It is commendable that Knudsen was able to make a splendor in the coffee world where big men were in power at that time.