• food

    Posted on November 24th, 2008

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    Edible.com: for things that (many would say) aren’t

    Edible.com: for things that (many would say) aren’t

    I ran across this little specialty food site today called Edible. When I write “specialty food”, I seriously mean it.
    The items that caught my immediate interest were the Wild Black Vanilla Pod and the infamous Civet Coffee. The vanilla because the mind just overflows with the possibilities inherent in a wild version. The coffee because, [...]

  • equipment, technique

    Posted on November 18th, 2008

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    Roasting Coffee the Popcorn Way

    Roasting Coffee the Popcorn Way

    Remember when I said I had to stop myself from posting anything that comes across khymos.org and Ideas in Food? Apparently Make is one of those, as well, at least for their food related posts.*
    However, in this case, a casual exchange on twitter prompts this one.

    At the time, I just forwarded a link to an [...]

  • food

    Posted on November 16th, 2008

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    Easiest, Least Expensive Way to Make Your Coffee Taste Better

    Easiest, Least Expensive Way to Make Your Coffee Taste Better

    Why is my coffee bitter? It doesn’t make any sense. I mean, sure, it’s got a lot of bitter flavor compounds in it, and sure, the tongue supposedly has those taste receptors just for bitter flavors so that we don’t eat poisonous things or something, but my coffee can be tastier. I’ve had tastier coffee. [...]

  • review

    Posted on November 14th, 2008

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    Espresso Machine Review - Saeco Vienna

    Espresso Machine Review - Saeco Vienna

    I have not tried a large number of espresso makers, so this will not be a comparative review. What you will find in the following paragraphs is what owning a Saeco Vienna will do for you, how it will improve your life, your love life, and your professional life. How you can master seven languages [...]

  • food

    Posted on November 12th, 2008

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    Espresso as an extraction

    Espresso as an extraction

    There are a couple of sites that I have a difficult time not linking to whenever there’s a new post. Ideas in Food is one of them, and khymos.org is the other. They have consistently good information and you should probably just add them to your rss reader if you haven’t already.
    Today I’ve failed at [...]

  • food

    Posted on July 27th, 2008

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    Coffee Art

    Yesterday, I thought I would give my wife a treat, so I made for her a bit of art on her latte. We were watching Babe at the time, so I figured it would be fun to make a rooster crowing on the roof of a farmhouse. It wasn’t until after I finished that [...]

  • technique

    Posted on May 20th, 2008

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    Balloon Animals and Clouds

    I was making my wife’s usual morning latte yesterday, as is my custom (yes, she is spoiled). After making a certain number of lattes, one starts to play around with the process. In my case, I’m slowly learning to make designs in the coffee. Oh, not well, I assure you, but designs nevertheless.
    There’s a [...]

  • review

    Posted on May 11th, 2008

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    That’s a big pastry

    I’m doing some travel for business. I got a new job recently (and got married, and went on a honeymoon, and was in a bit of community theatre), which is part of the reason you’ve heard little from me recently. However, as I’m getting the old posts back, I’ll post some more new stuff in [...]

  • equipment

    Posted on May 11th, 2008

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    Tinkering with the Vacuum

    At my day job, we have a Bodum Santos electric vacuum coffee maker. It’s a lovely device, and given the choice between an automatic drip pot and this, I would always choose this. It’s more automatic than a press, but more work than an automatic drip. The only thing that would stop me from recommending [...]

  • equipment

    Posted on May 11th, 2008

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    Solar powered coffee roaster

    I haven’t gotten to the issue of roasting coffee yet, but this is just too keen to pass up. It’s a Solar Powered Coffee Roaster, brought to us via Make magazine’s web site. Might be a bit large for home use, but still cool.

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