Tag: coffee

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What We’re Reading: March 29, 2014

What do America’s coffee preferences look like on a map? Why don’t young farmers get insured? Why aren’t we already drinking maple water? And how can food serve as, ahem, an olive branch? This and more in what our editors are reading this week.

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What We’re Reading: January 11, 2014

Our editors consider some of the food system’s biggest debates this week with timely reads on the reality of Fair Trade certification, GMO-phobia and the Gulf’s so-called “dead zone.”

PHOTOS: Red Hook’s Pulley Collective

If you think the possibilities of coffee production and consumption have peaked around these parts, think again. Cafés have had the option to go a step further and roast their own beans locally in recent years thanks to Pulley Collective.

A Custom-made Milk Destined for Your Macchiato

In coffee lingo, what you want atop a macchiato isn’t whipped cream but “microfoam,” and from Munson’s perspective, whole milk wasn’t rich enough, while half-and-half was a little too heavy.

Cold-Brew Coffee, Raw Oysters and Other Provisions to Weather Hurricane Irene

SAG HARBOR–Earlier today, in a dash of Hurricane-driven provisioning, my wife, who is always thinking ahead in a way that makes me love her, went to town for batteries, candles, bread and other essentials, including two pounds of already-ground coffee from our local roaster, Java Nation. We usually buy whole beans, but if electricity goes out, we won’t be able to use our grinder, of course.