Category Archives: Announcement

London Gastronomy – Cheese

I love cheese. Everyone loves cheese.  I don’t really, despite trying, really understand cheese.
Before I type cheese too many times I want to let people know that the next London Gastronomy Seminar is coming up and I am really quite excited about it.  There are more details here.
On a side note – Neal’s Yard Dairy [...]

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Aida’s Grand Reserve

I am very much aware that promoting my own products or business on a personal blog very quickly spends any currency of goodwill that I might have built up.
There are, however, rare instances where I think it is entirely worth it and this is one of them. There is more information about the coffee [...]

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London Gastronomy Seminars – Wine & Coffee

This evening I had a lot of fun presenting at the London Gastronomy Seminars.  The topic was flavour in wine and coffee, and I was up after Jamie Goode, which is a hard act to follow!  Our topic was “Flavour – from plant to cup”
Jamie’s presentation was full of information and topics that could have [...]

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Great new coffee brewing website

A rather splendid new website launched today, and I think it is a great idea and potentially very, very useful for us all.
It is called Brew Methods and I strongly suggest you visit, bookmark and begin sending the link to everyone you know.

You can read more about it by its creators on cleanhotdry, but the [...]

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Upcoming events

Two events I am very excited about, one very soon and one in a few months:
London Gastronomy Seminars
This month is the second in the London Gastronomy Seminars series.  The title is “From plant to cup: flavour in coffee & wine” and I am presenting along with Jamie Goode.
Those of you into wine will know Jamie [...]

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London Coffee Jobs website

Today I created a simple website with a simple goal:
Connect quality focused cafes/coffee roasters/coffee suppliers with potential staff.
I get a lot of emails, and meet a lot of people looking for barista jobs in London, and I know shops are always looking but I forget to keep track of exactly who.  The idea of the [...]

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The espresso survey update

Thanks to the 40 odd people who have contributed. Once I get to 100 entries I will start some analysis.
If you are up for weighing a couple of things then please do contribute! Keep an eye on my twitter if you want to know how things are progressing.
Survey
Thanks!

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A brave commitment to videoblogging

I’ve been thinking for a while that I’d like to do more video blogging, so with this post I am forcing my own hand.  I know lots of people are already doing this so I should probably explain my motivation:
Anyone who starts their own business can probably tell you how easy it is to let [...]

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Help with grinders for WBC

A rather hopeful post I know – but I would be grateful if anyone can help:
Is there anyone out there reading this who might be able to lend/loan/rent one (or cheekily two) timer modified Anfim grinders for Gwilym to use in ATL in a few weeks?1
I am open to bartering/bargaining/trades/whatever it takes….2
If you are somehow [...]

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New Comment policy

Due to the recent rise of non-comments that are essentially comment spam I am now enforcing some level of comment moderation.  If you are a first time commenter now then your comment will need approval and I will be much stricter on the spam comments.
If your comment is not interesting or constructive it may well [...]

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