Saturday, August 30, 2003


coffee party

so today i had another coffee party. once again, i have to thank todd of whole latte love for sending fresh coffee and a new steam tip for carlos the expobar.

you can't help but love todd. he's a sweetie! and i finally got to meet art photographer bill thompson, a west village resident, owner of a vintage pavoni europiccolo, which he purchased in florence many years ago.

never met him, but i knew he had to be cool. because he's an espresso fanatic, a lover of the ultimate ristretto, and coffee people are just the most awesome, friendly, hip people. also julia, a nice girl from my yoga class, came.

we sampled don schoenholt's gillies deluxe dark 2, doug zell's intelligentsia black cat, and dr. john's josuma malabar gold. famed "cult" coffees all.

and because julia is originally from hawaii, we made some kona in a vac pot. neither julia nor bill had ever seen a vac pot in action before, and that's always a good time.

we had all the equipment out -- the bathroom scale for the 30-lb. tamp, the mazzer mini grinder for espresso, the rancilio silvia, carlos, the bodum chambord, the reg barber tamper, the saeco 2002 burr grinder for drip, the davinci caramel syrup for a flavored latte. . .the whole 9 yards.

we also sampled chocolate, starting with dagoba organic bars. we tried the 37% milk chocolate brasilia with coconut and brazil nuts.

i think we all preferred the dagoba 59% roseberry with dark chocolate, rose hips, and raspberries. organic chocolates always seem a little waxy to me, but of all the organics, the dagoba is certainly the best.

naturally we also enjoyed the michel cluizel 67% "los ancones" santo domingo single origin bar, the bernard castelain macaibo 70%, and some italian chocolate nougat that we really didn't care for at all.

these coffee parties are so much fun, i just wish i could have them every single day!

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