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		<title>The baristas&#8217; lament (a poem of sorts)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A barista is the last hand on the coffee. It goes through many hands. Then it goes to my hands. Then to my guest: my customer. If it&#8217;s not perfect, it&#8217;s completely my fault. It&#8217;s not that if it&#8217;s not perfect, it was ruined in my hands. It&#8217;s that my hands, and all the hands]]></description>
		<link>http://portafilter.net/?p=839</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Perfect Cappuccino&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(a film review) Indeed, it&#8217;s more than just a cup of coffee! Though it&#8217;s a beverage, a commodity, and a consumer-good, there&#8217;s something about coffee that is fundamentally personal. It&#8217;s something you share, you meet for, and that has been bringing people together for hundreds of years. Amy Ferraris captures so much of this in]]></description>
		<link>http://portafilter.net/?p=829</link>
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		<title>Perfect Coffee?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At last year&#8217;s SCAA annual Expo, the keynote speaker was George Ray McEachern, a professor of horticulture at Texas A&#38;M University, focusing much of his research and study in wine. He used a particular phrase during his speech which absolutely fascinated me, especially as we often compare coffee and wine: &#8220;Perfect wine.&#8221; He kept saying]]></description>
		<link>http://portafilter.net/?p=821</link>
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		<title>19.1 Is The New 20.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross posted from my Google+ The prior literature on coffee brewing tends to use mass units for coffee (grams or ounces), and volume for water (liters or fluid ounces, sometimes gallons or cups). Granted, you&#8217;ll see teaspoons or tablespoons used sometimes, but none of those are really trying to be scientific. Lavoisier&#8217;s Law of the]]></description>
		<link>http://portafilter.net/?p=816</link>
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		<title>Is Green Coffee &gt; Coffee?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why the obsession with green coffee? Let me rephrase that. Why such relatively-little attention paid on the other stuff in coffee? Off the top of my head, let&#8217;s make a list of ten major distinct areas directly involving coffee. Note: I&#8217;m intentionally leaving out important social, environmental, or ethical issues here. Let&#8217;s just look at]]></description>
		<link>http://portafilter.net/?p=803</link>
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		<title>pf.net &gt; G+</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been prodded to blog here more, so I&#8217;ve brought over a few recent Google+ posts and will now be posting more little bloggy stuff here. Again. You&#8217;ve been warned.]]></description>
		<link>http://portafilter.net/?p=799</link>
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		<title>Water Torture Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So thanks to coffee ingénue Ben Kaminsky, I got my water measured. To recap: a couple weeks ago, our water was reading at about 40-50 TDS (total impurities), the &#8216;book&#8217; says about 150 ppm TDS is ideal for brewing coffee, and my water is now reading about 140-150 ppm TDS. Ben measured my water to be]]></description>
		<link>http://portafilter.net/?p=795</link>
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		<title>They&#8217;re Not Coffee Particles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Was hanging out with young up-and-coming coffee superstar Alex Powar today, and while I was mouthing-off with some coffee brewing spiel, Alex added, &#8220;Yeah&#8230; I mean, we call them coffee particles after all&#8230;&#8221; The general definition of a &#8220;particle&#8221; can be said to be an effectively one-dimensional thing. It&#8217;s a point in space. It&#8217;s a]]></description>
		<link>http://portafilter.net/?p=792</link>
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		<title>Water Torture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Normally, I&#8217;d be happy with a water TDS reading like this. I&#8217;m not right now. Why? Because it&#8217;s the water at home, and one week ago, it was 40ppm TDS, which is 100ppm less exactly one week ago. About 140 ppm (parts per million) TDS is, according to all the relevant literature, about ideal for]]></description>
		<link>http://portafilter.net/?p=790</link>
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		<title>addendum to the Bests of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Best Musical Performance In Coffee 2011:]]></description>
		<link>http://portafilter.net/?p=775</link>
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