Tuesday, June 22, 2004


more mea culpa & chocolate panini

this issue with the bccy archives since i moved over here to blogspot is mysterious. the archive files appear to be there in when you look for them -- say with cuteftp -- but the blogger.com web server can't find them or serve them out. odd.

i'm still trying to figure this one out. let me once again thank you endlessly for your patience.

until this is solved, i'm afraid we won't have archives, search or permalinks. forgive me; but once the web server can find the files, then all services will be restored in a matter of hours.

now onto important matters: novice home bakers have long relied on lora brody. many devout home bakers say they can't live without her dough products.

now she's written a book on chocolate and baking. while i'm absolutely no fan of much of the stuff in it, such as the frankly silly chocolate-covered popcorn or chocolate-covered chinese noodles -- i am a huge, huge fan of the chocolate panini.

just imagine your best home-made sweet focaccia (skip the raisins), grilled with a mixture of fresh mascarpone and valrhona. . .luckily you don't have to buy the book for this recipe: it's right here.

last but far far from least is the launch of the new counterculture website, with its brand-new cupping room blog. as this develops it will be fun place to actually talk seriously about how coffee tastes with cupper and roasters guild guy peter giuliano.

and a big thank you to peter, for saying such sweet things about bccy and our dear pal doug cadmus in his announcement email. specialty coffee people are just the best!

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