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12/25

#Goals

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, happy holidays to those who do not, and may the coming year be healthy, happy and full of fine coffee and generous tips to your baristas.

Posted on 12/25/2021Categories miscellanyTags latte art, Merry Christmas1 Comment on 12/25

NYT x-word, you get me!

What’s with the quotation marks though?

Posted on 04/29/201904/29/2019Categories miscellanyTags crossword, latte artLeave a comment on NYT x-word, you get me!

back to school

Since things haven’t been going so well in my never-ending quest to produce even a passable example of latte art, I figured it was time to take another class. So I spent a couple hours today with the good folks at Vigilante Coffee in Hyattsville, MD.

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Posted on 04/14/201904/15/2019Categories miscellanyTags class, Curtis, La Marzocco, latte art, Mahlkonig, Vigilante Coffee1 Comment on back to school

still not there yet


So far my efforts at homemade latte art are not quite barista-worthy.  I keep coming up with something that looks like Prince’s love symbol or other suggestive images melded into a poor copy of Edvard Munch’s The Scream.  Will keep trying.

Posted on 11/11/201811/11/2018Categories miscellanyTags latte art, milk steaming, Munch, Prince, The Scream3 Comments on still not there yet

master class

This morning I returned to the Counter Culture training center in DC.  It was time to learn how to make a better espresso, and (hopefully) how to make some latte art.  Not to mention the attraction of getting on a La Marzocco machine I could never hope to own.

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Posted on 11/03/201811/03/2018Categories gear, miscellanyTags Counter Culture, espresso, La Marzocco, latte art, Linea Mini, Northside Social1 Comment on master class
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