A Brave New Experiment

by | Mar 30, 2005 | Coffee

One of the perks [perks, get it?] of working for a coffee company is — surprise — free coffee! And being the coffee-slurping fiend that I am I take full advantage. I have tasted my way from one end of Green Mountain‘s coffee line-up to the other and back...

Ich bin ein Vermonter

by | Mar 28, 2005 | Life in Vermont

Finally! For fellow flatlanders who have made the move to Vermont, a little help with the local language… Faam: A place where you raise animals and vegetables. Baan: A structure on the faam. Jaw on dare: The green tractor in the baan. Soda: What a farmer did to...

It’s a tiny, connected world…

by | Mar 27, 2005 | Coffee

A few days ago I posted a brief link to a Flikr photo set… a gallery of fab latte art. Turns out that the shutterbug — Tonx — is also a coffee roaster, barista and resident web guy at Victrola Coffee in Seattle, as well as a fellow coffee blogger. Read his...
Beverage Containment Device

Beverage Containment Device

by | Mar 27, 2005 | Coffee

My inner geek mightily covets this tech-lookin’ travel tumbler… 20 ounce double-walled plastic transparent travel mug with removable top and a futuristic binary imprint on it. The binary, when translated, reveals its ascii equivalent of ‘beverage...

The Senseo Crema Mystery

by | Mar 24, 2005 | Coffee

The Mystery: What’s up with the Senseo, Anyway? The machine produced by Philips and Douwe Egberts has been rather aggressively marketed as the “coffee machine with the delicious crema layer”. I have been asked more times than I can count [and I count...

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