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A Rose is a better Rose, is a better Rose / Caffeine is a Pesticide
Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:30 AM EDT
April has begun. The sun starts shining more hours and more days in a row and the coffee list continues to grow when it comes to the number of its possible uses.
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Quality Street Coffee in London / Brewed Boy Espresso
Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:30 PM EDT
Repeatedly I am confronted with questions and comments and dwell upon my own thoughts about the differences between various qualities of coffee houses.
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Leopold Hawelka, founder of famous Austrian cafe, turns 100 amid much fanfare - - The Guardian
Seeded on Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:54 PM EDT ()
I have seen this man several times. Each time I visit my beloved Vienna, I visit my beloved Cafe Hawelka. Just sad I was not there a coulple of days ago.
When Vegetables get Bagged in a Breast of Lamb
Tue Apr 12, 2011 2:13 PM EDT
For the first time I have cooked the breast of a lamb. That is certainly not what one would suggest to those in the process of loosing weight, but I decided this was not one of those I-wish-to-loose-weight-days. Instead I chose to enjoy at least one hour of culinary pleasure.
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Asparagus Dornfelder Cream
Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:25 PM EDT
It is Asparagus time! Patiently and happily I await the month of April yearly and for a couple of years I have been dwelling upon ideas to vary this wonderful product while enhancing its taste as well.
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Coffee, the Luwak and Asparagus in a Rite of Spring
Sat Apr 9, 2011 12:56 PM EDT
One of the most wonderful times of the year has arrived and in some countries farmers and their helpers are arduously working in the fields to interrupt the natural growth of the Asparagus officinalis linnaeus, thus obstructing the plant from having its sprouts becoming proper f …
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Coffee and Pipe Tobacco / The Coffee Blogosphere visiting *Smoking Pipes*
Sun Apr 3, 2011 9:37 PM EDT
Some days ago I heard the claim that being interested in health, in good-quality water, in good results from drinking water and in the best water assimilation possible for the body, one MUST renounce coffee altogether.
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Wild Rice with Dark Influence
Sun Apr 3, 2011 9:16 PM EDT
When I think about cooking risotto, I think about the types of rice cultivated for this reason, like Arborio, Padano, Carnaroli and others.
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What would Coffee be without the controlled flame? / Robert Bunsen born 200 years ago today
Seeded on Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:52 AM EDT (www.rsc.org)
"Robert Bunsen asked his university's instrument maker, Peter Desaga, to build him a burner. The result was an adjustable, very hot, and, above all, non-luminous flame. The burner was an instant success."
Fentiman′s Curiosity Cola - much more than a Lemonade
Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:31 AM EDT
For different reasons I have had an interest for cola drinks which try to offer more than what the common brands sell. The commercially successful recipes remind little of the botanical origins cola has and focus mostly on profiles based on sugar and lemonade.
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Coffee with Lime
Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:17 PM EDT
Everywhere we look, wonderful words could be found that aim at describing what the palate should be able to perceive when drinking some coffees. "flowery aroma, pronounced citrus flavour with lively, yet soft aftertaste..."
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Coffee Quote #24 (Fascism)
Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:07 AM EDT
Perhaps the most important Fascist contribution to the development of Italian coffee culture was that the term 'barista' made its appearance in Italian as an alternative to the American barman - no doubt in deference to the regime's desire to purge the language of foreign influe …
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Popcorn with Orange Zest (sweet)
Sat Mar 26, 2011 12:12 PM EDT
It does not matter how simple and undramatic we might go about it in the kitchen, the palate will always be able to perceive complexity. So, take simply…
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Coffee Dressed - Wedding Dresses, Art, Fashion
Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:37 AM EDT
Inspiration is a vicious cycle. Sometimes it comes and inventive minds feel the urge to somehow manifest the fact they have been inspired.
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Do not do today, what you could have done yesterday / A Fig Sauce
Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:46 PM EDT
Each time I cook for commercial purposes, I try cooking some hours in advance – at best the day before. Such dishes acquire much of its taste when the are able to rest after the cooking.
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What do you drink your coffee with? March 22nd is World Water Day
Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:19 AM EDT
In the middle of endless discussions about the quality of water, the coffee world considers increasingly the water hardness. These are crucial when making any cup of coffee or tea. However, when it comes to water, there is much more to discuss, than its level of hardness.
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Theme WWD 2011: Water for Cities - World Water Day
Seeded on Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:59 PM EDT (World Water Day)
The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.
Popcorn #1 (salty)
Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:06 PM EDT
In Oscar Wilde's writings, although he is known to us as our very first modern man, I see thoughts portraying the simplicity of being, along with the complexity of our basic existence. Both, simplicity and complexity, are deep-rooted aspects of our nature and cultures.
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Coffee, Cheese on the Side / Porter Cheddar
Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:45 PM EDT
We humans have our customs. Those develop for various reasons, like tradition, practicality, knowledge or even out of strange, very individual decisions. One of these customs is eating biscuits, cakes or similar sweet things with our coffee.
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Mozzarella with Darkened Beetroot
Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:35 PM EDT
Beetroots - Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris var.
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Coffee according to an Espresso
Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:44 PM EDT
One single product serves as symbol for a country, for individuality, for quality, for pleasure, for bitterness and intensity - an espresso. At least as long as this is done the Italian way, in way of ingredients, preparation, brewing and serving.
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Money and Stamps honouring Coffee
Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:20 PM EDT
To celebrate the beginnings of coffee cultivation in 1748 in Cuba, a series of 200th anniversary coffee cultivation stamps were issued. Here are the ones for one, two and five Cuban cents. Around the same time other countries in South America issued their own coffee stamps.
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Three Hot Drinks in a Single Cup
Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:27 PM EDT
Each coffee-house decides on a concept with which it intends to set itself apart and be successful. Some wish to serve their neighbourhood as coffee-houses, caressing souls on a daily basis, while others wish to simply make money.
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Dry your own coffee tomatoes
Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:22 AM EDT
Many things in life are like nature - complex in its simplicity and simple in its complexity.
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A History of Coffee in Literature
Seeded on Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:39 AM EDT (www.web-books.com)
"The romance of coffee, and its influence on the discourse, poetry, history, drama, philosophic writing, and fiction of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and on the writers of today—Coffee quips and anecdotes"
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My parents and other relatives all spoiled me with good food. Thus my palate demands much these days, when drinking or eating coffee, or anything else …
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