Erin, one of the owners of Companion Bakeshop, approached me with a novel idea; pairing coffee/cappaccinos with pastries like wine and cheese. I thought it was just brilliant, coffee shops and specialty bakeries are becoming such mainstream culinary staples, why shouldn’t we take pairing seriously? I bounced the idea around and got a lot of…
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Red Velvet Latte from Bitter+Sweet Cafe
This is the first in a series of articles featuring the specialty drinks of certain shops; original creations that demonstrate the imagination of baristas pushing the culinary art of coffee towards new directions. When I first walk into a shop, I usually notice the shop specialty. Generally, this is just curiosity. In all honesty, I…
“BOLD”
Merriam Webster defines “bold” as… bold [bohld] adjective, -er, -est. 1.not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possibledanger or rebuff; courageous and daring: a bold hero. 2.not hesitating to break the rules of propriety; forward;impudent: He apologized for being so bold as to speak to theemperor. 3.necessitating courage and daring; challenging: a boldadventure. 4.beyond the usual limits of conventional thought or action;imaginative: Einstein was a bold mathematician. a difficultproblem needing a bold answer. 5.striking or conspicuous to the eye; flashy; showy: a bold pattern. If I had a dollar for every time I heard coffee flavors referred to as “bold,” I could retire at age 25. No, seriously. Starbux, Petes, and all the other big names in coffee have used this term to describe dark,…
Why Caps?
A wise man named George once told me that the mark of a good barista was the quality of their cappuccino. Good advise. Most people seem to agree with this premise. It is simple, yet so easy to screw up, a standard, yet so open to manipulation. It is also volatile, completely dependent on the barista’s choice of…
I have returned
So, this site was a brain child for all of, well, 15 minutes. I was sitting in a shop in Japan and it suddenly dawned on me, if I like coffee why not write about it? I started this site, really excited, and then because of work it just kind of fell off my radar….
Coffee is for Lovers 
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