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22 November 2007
Home Espresso: The Complete Buyer’s Guide (part 6)
Fickle Palate presents the Home Espresso Complete Buyer’s Guide.
Chapter 1 - Intro, Vocabulary, and Awesome Reasons
Chapter 2 - Essential Components of Café-Quality Home Espresso
Chapter 3 - Getting More Familiar with Espresso Machines
Chapter 4 - Recommended Grinders
Chapter 5 - Recommended Espresso Machines
Chapter 6 - Accessories & Troubleshooting
Favorite Espresso Accessories
Bodum Pavina Double Wall [...]
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21 November 2007
Home Espresso: The Complete Buyer’s Guide (part 5)
Fickle Palate presents the Home Espresso Complete Buyer’s Guide.
Chapter 1 - Intro, Vocabulary, and Awesome Reasons
Chapter 2 - Essential Components of Café-Quality Home Espresso
Chapter 3 - Getting More Familiar with Espresso Machines
Chapter 4 - Recommended Grinders
Chapter 5 - Recommended Espresso Machines
Chapter 6 - Accessories & Troubleshooting
Let There be Espresso Machines for [...]
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20 November 2007
Home Espresso: The Complete Buyer’s Guide (part 4)
Fickle Palate presents the Home Espresso Complete Buyer’s Guide.
Chapter 1 - Intro, Vocabulary, and Awesome Reasons
Chapter 2 - Essential Components of Café-Quality Home Espresso
Chapter 3 - Getting More Familiar with Espresso Machines
Chapter 4 - Recommended Grinders
Chapter 5 - Recommended Espresso Machines
Chapter 6 - Accessories & Troubleshooting
Guidance on Buying a Quality Grinder
Because [...]
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19 November 2007
Home Espresso: The Complete Buyer’s Guide (part 3)
Fickle Palate presents the Home Espresso Complete Buyer’s Guide.
Chapter 1 - Intro, Vocabulary, and Awesome Reasons
Chapter 2 - Essential Components of Café-Quality Home Espresso
Chapter 3 - Getting More Familiar with Espresso Machines
Chapter 4 - Recommended Grinders
Chapter 5 - Recommended Espresso Machines
Chapter 6 - Accessories & Troubleshooting
Tips for Making Superb Espresso
Most experienced [...]
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18 November 2007
Home Espresso: The Complete Buyer’s Guide (part 2)
Fickle Palate presents the Home Espresso Complete Buyer’s Guide.
Chapter 1 - Intro, Vocabulary, and Awesome Reasons
Chapter 2 - Essential Components of Café-Quality Home Espresso
Chapter 3 - Getting More Familiar with Espresso Machines
Chapter 4 - Recommended Grinders
Chapter 5 - Recommended Espresso Machines
Chapter 6 - Accessories & Troubleshooting
The Essential Components of Café-Quality Home [...]
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12 November 2007
The Coffeehouse: Home of Culture
Just as rich soil nourishes the delectable beans of the Coffea (Coffee) plant, coffeehouses have been fertile ground for communities. Whether for an intimate gathering of neighbors or for the stimulus of intellectual and political discussion, coffee shops and cafes are staples of communities the world over. When one sits in one’s local coffeehouse and [...]
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5 November 2007
Green Beans and Coyotes: How Coffee Gets From Grower to Cup
The coffee bean has many admirable traits, but its most impressive is that it is the 2nd most widely distributed commodity in the global marketplace. It comes just after petroleum oil, and rightly fuels many a coffee drinkers’ mornings. From the agricultural economics of over 25 million small coffee farmers to multimillion dollar trades on [...]
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29 October 2007
A Whole World at your Lips: Tour the Coffee Regions of the World
Your coffee cup hosts traces of everything that its beans underwent in their entire little lives. So it stands to reason that the region of origin of your coffee has a profound effect on its characteristics. Factors such as soil type, amount and frequency of rainfall, presence or absence of mistiness and shade, proximity of [...]
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22 October 2007
Before the Pour: How Coffee is Grown and Harvested
How does your morning pick-me-up get to your cup? What happens between the growth of the coffee plant and your sips? Let’s explore the process of coffee-making at the macro level.
Coffee plants often start out interspersed with other crops such as corn or rice for a few years. Other times, as in some places in [...]
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18 October 2007
Name That Cup: Terms for Coffee Tasting
Although the terms may vary slightly in different cupping circles, cupping involves assessing coffee in four main categories: acidity (which does not refer to the pH of the coffee, as commonly construed), aroma, body and flavor. For enthusiasts, cupping may begin even before the grinding commences with observations of each type of coffee beans’ color [...]