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Book Review: The professional barista’s handbook - Scott Rao

By James Hoffmann ⋅ February 28, 2008 ⋅ 27 comments

I have a lot of books on coffee, and I am pretty sure Scott Rao does as well. Of the 100-150 I have maybe 25 are on espresso, and of those I’d consider maybe 5 useful in some way. The…

Book Review: “I love Coffee” by Susan Zimmer

By James Hoffmann ⋅ April 12, 2007 ⋅ 6 comments

Several weeks ago an e-mail came through this site from a publishers asking for my address so they could send me a book. I was surprised, a little skeptical but gave it to them and this morning a book arrived.…

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