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Serious about coffee

Author: meta | Filed under: Everything Friday Jun 27,2008

Now that I’m married to a professional barista, it became time to upgrade our coffee machine. Our Starbucks pump espressio machine had offered loyal service for several years, but rothko wanted something with a full size brewhead, like you’d find on a professional machine in an Italian espresso bar. Fortunately her job, plus a tax [...]

The horror, the horror

Author: meta | Filed under: Uncategorized Monday Jun 3,2002

Seattle is proposing to tax espresso drinks.
In not-unrelated news, the doctor says I can drink coffee, but I should stop drinking tea. Well, that’s fine by me…

Starbucks, the crack cocaine of gourmet coffee

Author: meta | Filed under: Uncategorized Thursday Jul 12,2001

Needed to grab coffee between meetings this morning. Starbucks was closest, so…
For those who don’t know: Starbucks coffee has around 3x the caffeine of filter coffee you’d make at home. That’s one reason why I generally only have espresso drinks there. (And given other options, I generally don’t go there at all.)
Except today. So by [...]

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