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In case you haven’t come across this article from the Long Island Press yesterday: Everything You Know About Coffee Is Wrong | Long Island Press. Wow — local journalism is still producing thoughtful, lengthy pieces that might actually tell the average reader something they didn’t already know? Sure enough, it’s a rather well-written and thoughtful [...]

Tags: coffee_chains, coffee_roasters, flavored_coffees, journalism, long_island_coffee, macchiato, misto, nyc_coffee, quality_standards

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If you blog about coffee long enough, you see the same introductory articles about coffee over and over and over (did we mention over?) again. The Internet continually drones with a strange-yet-familiar mantra, where each week you find dozens of newspaper articles, magazine articles, commerce sites, and blog posts that feel compelled to regurgitate the [...]

Tags: cafe_society, caffe_corretto, italy_coffee, italy_customs, macchiato, Starbucks

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Seattle’s Coffee Fest trade show ended yesterday. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published an article announcing the winners of its “Millrock Free Pour Latte Art competition” (isn’t that a mouthful?): Artistic cup of joe brings home $5,000 prize. Top honors and $5,000 of prize money went to Layla Emily Osberg of Vancouver, BC’s Blenz Coffee — where [...]

Tags: Barista, barista_championships, coffee_fest, espresso_vivace, latte_art, macchiato, milk_frothing, vancouver_cafes

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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 [...]

Tags: cappuccino, clara_peller, coffee_sizes, gibraltar, latte, macchiato, milk_frothing, to-go-coffee

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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 [...]

Tags: cappuccino, coffee_lingo, macchiato, Starbucks, vancouver_cafes

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Starbucks knows their customers. This much, nobody can argue — given the massive scale to which they have grown. The latest evidence being today’s AP story, Starbucks Betting on Drive-Thru Coffee. Its once “upscale” image continues to become a novelty of its corporate past. Fewer and fewer consumers now recognize the Starbucks brand as more [...]

Tags: drive_thru_coffee, fast_food_coffee, macchiato, quality_standards, seattle_coffee, Starbucks, vancouver_coffee

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