Archive for category ‘coffee shops’
Monday, August 15th, 2011
so what if the culture of specialty coffee, with all its focus on quality and impulse for celebration, also carries a certain narrow way of thinking that ends up handicapping the cause in the long run?
obviously, this is where you click, "close tab." back to teh twitterz! right, yes, ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
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half-pound bison burger, emmental, garlic shoots, pico de gallo, quail egg. and coffee -- square mile's kenya tegu.
it's barely a stretch -- a counter-stretch! -- to say high-end coffee learns a lot from trending food movements. this blog wonders if it's not missing the ...
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
it stings to be told how to properly drink a macchiato.
it also stings to be told your espresso tastes like "bitter ... burned citrus peel."
sprodown!
alas, the offense on both sides was avoidable -- and, to this reader's eye, the fault of intelligentsia's "good guys." which isn't to say they could ...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
thought experiment: let's say the assignment in your progeny's geography class is to make a map from your house to grandma's house -- a rough map, let's say, composed of basic landmarks along the way. and let's say that ALL the landmarks included in the map drawn by your offspring, ...
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