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Joe Alternatives: A Cup of Hot Brown, Hold the Coffee

Chicory-laced ground coffee combined with hot milk will always be credited to NOLA in this country, and yet it's the foundation for South Indian filter coffee that predated it by at least a century.

swagv at 11:34AM on 02/06/12

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Sneak Preview: Handsome Coffee Roasters, Los Angeles

The way the presses have been teasing us with non-news about them for the past several months has gotten to be like Guns n Roses release of "Chinese Democracy"...

swagv at 9:44AM on 02/02/12

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Back in Black: Why You Should Taste Your Coffee With and Without Milk and Sugar

This article is as myopic as the people who think you should only drink coffee with milk and sugar. Not all coffees are the same, duh. Not where they are from, not how they are roasted, etc. Some coffees go better with milk and are designed that way. Some coffees are better straight up.

One size does not fit all. So I am not surprised some single origin, Central American CoE bean tastes like ass in milk. But to the contrary, there are also well-made coffees -- and yes, even blends -- that excel with milk where otherwise they might taste astringent or harsher.

This isn't rocket science.

swagv at 10:54AM on 01/31/12

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New Light and Dark Roasts from Caribou Coffee

Caribou coffee in Serious Eats? What next? KFC Bowls?

swagv at 1:59PM on 01/25/12

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DIY vs. Buy: Should I Make My Own Coffee Liqueur?

You could use the same arguments behind why you should consider DIY chemotherapy treatments, but there's a reason why many of us won't go there.

swagv at 8:50AM on 01/07/12

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Back to the Grind: 5 Great Coffee Grinders

Tis the season for blogs to cash in on commercial gift ads...

swagv at 3:57PM on 12/14/11

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Coffee Filters: You Should Clean Them

'Perfect' is a myth, Erin. Please stop pretending to be Martha Stewart.

swagv at 11:06AM on 11/04/11

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How To Brew Coffee With a Kantan Dripper

Please... I beg you ... do not publish an article on making cowboy coffee next. Google says we already have 150,000 of them, and we really don't need 150,001.

swagv at 10:57AM on 09/22/11

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Around the Caffeinated World: Brewed Coffee Takes Over Europe

You guys need to fire your copy editors. The headline has almost nothing to do with the article contents.

I thought this was going to be a piece about how filter-brewed coffee, rather than espresso, was making inroads in Europe much as it has recently in Australasia. What I got instead was yet another rehash of the European coffee history article.

swagv at 2:01PM on 09/19/11

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How to Brew Coffee in a Chemex

I see the Serious Eats SEO campaign rages on, despite the hundreds if not thousands of duplicate posts to this already on the Internet.

swagv at 5:10PM on 09/15/11

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How to Brew Coffee in an AeroPress

Damn. SeriousEats really is going to next post my dishwashing machine instructions at this rate...

swagv at 12:22PM on 09/09/11

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Taste Coffee with the Pros at MadCap in Grand Rapids, MI

I am soooo in favor of this approach rather than the shoehorning of industry insider cuppings for the lay public as espoused by the likes of Counter Culture, etc. It really is about time that the coffee industry put the consumer experience ahead of themselves to get this right.

swagv at 12:45PM on 08/24/11

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5 Essential Tips for New Coffee Shop Owners

Not a word about a minimum number of daily customer purchases and beverage margins?

Without that, these top 5 will put you out of business.

swagv at 11:49AM on 08/22/11

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How to Brew Coffee in a Clever Dripper

Any articles on how to use my Bosch dishwasher?

swagv at 3:05PM on 08/17/11

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Coffee-to-English Dictionary, Part III: Milky Coffee Drinks

Damn. Methinks SeriousEats is in SeriousNeed of ad filler...

swagv at 12:20PM on 08/05/11

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How Coffee Gets Decaffeinated: Water Process

A Google search for "how coffee gets decaffeinated" produces "About 6,300,000 results". Thanks to this newly insightful, groundbreaking piece, that's now 6,300,001.

swagv at 11:01PM on 07/18/11

From A Hamburger Today

The Strangest Burger I've Ever Eaten, From Chalet Regain in France

Haute cuisine burgers are like making modern art with Crayolas. What's the point?

swagv at 4:09PM on 07/11/11

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Five Great Colombian Coffees You Should Try

I can't wait for the terroir tyranny of coffee today to level off so we can go back to enjoying the broader variety of coffee styles again. I enjoy the coffee newbie obsession with one- and two-flavor-note microlot single origin coffees as much as the next guy, but you'd think that's all that coffee had to offer.

swagv at 1:42PM on 06/29/11

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How to Brew Coffee With a Moka Pot

I recommend these all the time for people. Except it technically does not make espresso.

swagv at 2:49PM on 06/21/11

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Four Awesome Kenyan Coffees To Seek Out Right Now

These article heds are starting to read like Money magazine cover story come-ons.

swagv at 1:21PM on 06/15/11

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How to Become a More Eco-Savvy Coffee Lover

For the last time: Fair Trade is an *economic* program, not an environmental one. People are so aggressive with lumping every cause or issue into one amorphous "green" soup that you can no longer tell heads nor tails from the various causes and issues lumped into it.

swagv at 2:05PM on 05/31/11

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