Monday, August 25, 2003


heaven in oz

i'm talking about a great new chocolate and coffee bar, chocolate genie.

this place is run by noted coffee guru ian bersten -- the author, who also invented a novel way to package coffee for freshness, as well as his own fluid-bed roaster.

perhaps the best known of his books is "coffee floats tea sinks." it's just awesome even if i don't always agree with it, for those few of you who may not have read it yet. . .

bersten's quite a character, but so what? that's one of the most charming things about the coffee industry: it's filled with these incredible, amazing, larger-than-life people.

what's important is that they are passionately devoted to coffee and better quality coffee. his coffee and chocolate store are a bccy dream come true!

let others debate the "tamp like this" or "roast like that." everyone is always learning; i certainly am!

tamp however you like -- as long as the coffee's great and the chocolate's dark, i'm there!

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