Late lunch break: done right.
Latte Portraiture and the Willy Wonka of Coffee
Meet the barista whose drawings take steamed milk foam to the next level.
(via theatlantic)
In Victorian times they invented a tea cup to prevent your moustache from getting wet.
In Victorian times, however, only right-handed people had mustaches.
(Source: libbywho, via hotpotofcoffee)
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Thai elephants head to the river for an early morning bath at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort on Dec. 10, 2012. The resort is the production site for Black Ivory Coffee, a brew made from beans plucked from elephant dung.
[Credit : Paula Bronstein/Getty Images]
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Thai elephants head to the river for an early morning bath at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort on Dec. 10, 2012. The resort is the production site for Black Ivory Coffee, a brew made from beans plucked from elephant dung.
[Credit : Paula Bronstein/Getty Images]
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A shot from this morning’s BikeDC Friday Coffee Club at M. E. Swings Coffee. (I’m somewhere in the back right corner).
The worst thing about spilling scalding hot coffee on your thumb
Is having to hold onto the coffee cup for the next few seconds, until you are able to safely put it down without spilling more!
(Other than that, it’s been a lovely morning so far)
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Day 3: the sleeplessness kicks in.
I was wondering when the sleeplessness of new parenthood and the rigors of waking up in the morning to go to the office would collide. Monday and Tuesday I survived, probably on a combination of adrenaline and the excitement of getting back to my bike commute, but this morning, it all came down, when every bone in my body was screaming to stay in bed.
Oh well, looks like some caffeine-aided-productivity is in order.
This Deadman’s Reach coffee, a “high-speed roast” brought back from Alaska by Maria, has been a lifesaver in the early days of parenthood sleeplessness!
Gourmet coffee roaster Joel Finkelstein has long coveted a stall at the Dupont Circle farmers market, where face time with affluent food lovers could boost his sales and raise the visibility of Qualia, his cafe in Petworth. But Finkelstein and the rest of his coffee-roasting ilk are banned from participating in the renowned Sunday market and nine others operated by FreshFarm Markets. The nonprofit group allows only vendors who sell products from what they grow or raise on local farms and facilities. Which leaves purveyors of coffee, olive oil, shrimp and other non-local specialty foods on the sidelines. (via Purist farmers markets shun coffee roasters - The Washington Post)
Good questions about what makes a product local…
