Espresso Yourself

While I am not a barista, here is a method for making espresso that a barista taught me.
The Necessary Ingredients

My first instinct was to start with the “best” coffee I could find. Wrong. Everything with coffee start with the quality of the water, and it is doubly true with espresso. If [...]

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Thermal Carafes - Worth The Effort?

Don’t you just hate it?  You are ready to drink some of your favorite brew and your coffee maker is on the fritz.  Not that many years ago this would mean hours of driving to specialty stores to look for the one you will live with for the next decade.  Tedious?  Maybe. Time consuming?  Definitely.
But [...]

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Is Your Home The Perfect Place To Make Gourmet Coffee?

Entertaining has always been easy around a cup of coffee. I can still remember my parents firing up the percolator on Sunday evenings as friends came by to visit. The memories of my first attempts at learning to work that percolator on Saturday mornings are still fresh in my mind. Of course [...]

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