Posted by TheShot on 25 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Foreign Brew
Our Espresso in Torino and Piemonte series continues with a return to Torino’s Piazza San Carlo. Caffè San Carlo may not be among Gambero Rosso’s top 18 cafés in all of Italy, but they rated it with a very respectable 3 tazzine and 2 chicchi in its 2008 guide.
With so much competition on this [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 05 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues
Today’s Isthmus (Madison, WI) published an article discussing the classic Italian espresso, its merits, and how most of its American purveyors fail so miserably at it: Isthmus | The Daily Page - In search of a good (small) cup.
Going on a cappuccino crawl among twelve Madison, WI espresso bars, the article started with the local [...]
Posted by TheShot on 01 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Café Society, Foreign Brew
Our Espresso in Torino and Piemonte series next takes us to quite a historical café — and the closest thing to a tourist trap in Torino this side of the Holy Shroud. Caffè Al Bicerin was founded in 1763 as an apothecary shop and later remodeled as a café. But over the centuries it has [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 19 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Consumer Trends
Back in the 1980s, Wendy’s fast food restaurants sponsored a highly successful advertising campaign featuring a diminutive elderly Jewish woman (Clara Peller, she quickly became a cultural icon from these spots). When presented with the hamburgers of Wendy’s competitors, she famously asked, “Where’s the beef?!”
These days, it seems like we need a similar campaign for [...]
Posted by TheShot on 04 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Home Brew, Quality Issues, Starbucks
This week, The Guardian (UK) posted an article on the elusive quality cappuccino: How’s your crapuccino? from Guardian Unlimited: Word of Mouth. While the Brits may disparage the “dirty dishwater” that is American coffee, even in London you’re helpless to find a cappuccino that isn’t served in a gargantuan bowl, filled mostly with milk, and [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 08 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Barista, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues
This week’s The Brooklyn Paper published an article on espresso quality standards and their general absence in the fine borough, interviewing noneother than Third Wave pulpit banger, Nick Cho: The Brooklyn Paper: Coffee guru espresses his disgust.
Nick discusses the “seafoam problem” with cappuccinos, which he describes as, “When the milk is over-steamed, the bubbles get [...]
Posted by TheShot on 29 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Quality Issues
The Istituto Nazionale Espresso Italiano (INEI), or the National Italian Espresso Institute, was born with the certification of quality standards for the Italian Espresso in 1998. Today they announced new certification standards for the Cappuccino: Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - News In English - Italian Products: Cappuccino Obtains Certificate of Quality.
Organizations such as the INEI really [...]
Posted by TheShot on 27 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew
Maktoob Business, the business arm of a popular Arab portal, published an article this week revealing some international consumer attitudes towards coffee and cafés: Coffee culture: a global phenomenon? by Synovate | Maktoob Business.
Interviewing 5,806 respondents in the US, UK, France, Brazil, Hong Kong, Singapore, Serbia, Morocco, and Australia, some of the survey’s findings include [...]
Posted by TheShot on 18 Jun 2006 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Barista, Starbucks
In a personal piece in today’s Napa Valley Register, a father relates the story of how her daughter became a cappuccino professional — if not a “cappuccino Nazi”: A cappuccino moment | Napa Valley Register Online | Kevin Courtney Columnists.
When it comes to cappuccino, besides great espresso preparation, a lot of the quality comes down [...]
Posted by TheShot on 30 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Starbucks
Some people I know refuse to “speak Starbucks”. Sure, they have coffee beverages that come in a venti size — even if that literally means “twenty” in Italian (and not as in “twenty trips to the bathroom”). And if you order a latte in Italy, you would get a glass of milk — its literal [...]
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