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Violent slurping part of choosing best coffee
Vancouver Sun
He sips coffee like a Harley-Davidson taking off. Without a muffler. "Slurp as violently as possible," he says, instructing me to follow his lead. I do. My slurps sound like a tricycle taking off. Buhler's mom and dad actually brought him up well.

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With the right light, you could grow citrus, coffee, cinnamon and pepper
Winston-Salem Journal
A book evolved that was published in 2010 called "Growing Tasty Tropical Plants" ($18.95, Storey Publishing) with a subtitle of "in any home, anywhere." I spoke with Byron by phone and asked if he thought the plants featured in the book could thrive in ...

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Winter 2012 Food and Wine: Foodie A to Z in Carmel Valley
Monterey County Weekly
A small-but-vibrant enclave of artists carves out a home in the village, from Alan Masaoka and his blown-glass mindblowers to Paola Fiorelle Berthoin and her arranged-leaf mosaics. With June's Carmel Valley Art & Wine Fest (659-4000, $15) they throw ...

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Jweekly.com
Israeli native spans globe pursuing passion: coffee culture
Jweekly.com
In the Israel chapter, Halevy recaps such a drive: He starts in an Ethiopian neighborhood near his parents' home in Rehovot, where people buy green coffee beans in the market and roast them at home; goes on to describe a Yemenite area, where locals ...

SPoT Coffee Announces Tenth Cafe and Starts Expansion in to Upstate New York
MarketWatch (press release)
SPoT's complete menu of gourmet food and specialty beverages will be offered including SPoT's famous Belgian waffles, freshly prepared gourmet pizzas, signature sandwiches, SPoT's own in-house roasted coffee and an assortment of freshly baked desserts ...

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SF Weekly (blog)
Ritual Coffee Releases Branded Gram Scales
SF Weekly (blog)
Scales, thermometers, grinders, refractometers -- the coffee world keeps developing and refining the devices needed to "perfect" the roasting, grinding, and brewing of coffee to a flavorful tee. Home brewers, though saturated with home brewing devices ...

Coffee Beans Get Fresh Roast
Patch.com
By Megan Horst Hatch Thomas Wilkiel, owner of Fresh Roast Coffee & Tea, said he tries to be like a bartender on Cheers and remember what each customer has purchased. There's a new coffee place in town, with an emphasis on roasting coffee beans.

In Depth: A southern Gulf Islands university: why not just do it?
Gulf Islands Driftwood
By ROSS KING As we well know, on Salt Spring Island we can't “do” steel mills and we can't “do” coffee-roasting” and some are saying we can't “do” metal-recycling in our little paradise. Short of throwing ourselves collectively into the social welfare ...

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The Hot Blonde in the Coffee Shop: A Lighter Roast
Wall Street Journal
Tully's light roast Breakfast Blend. 3. Peet's dark French roast. 4. Medium roasted 'Café Domingo' from Peet's. 5. Starbucks's Medium House Blend. 6. Starbucks's Blonde Veranda Blend. A raft of new high-end cafes and coffee roasters, ...

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