Category Archives: Reviews

Espresso in the home.

So I really like having my own espresso machine. I love the fact that my espresso is better than the espresso I can get at a very large percentage of coffee shops around the city. But I still keep going to places with coffee that isn’t as good as I could make myself. Maybe just …

May 13, 2010 – 3:56 pm | By culhwch | Posted in Reviews | Comments (2)

Guerrilla and Red Horse

There are two kinds of Saturday morning coffee. By which statement I signal a false dialectic that I cannot bear to continue without exposing it before I have gone too much further. Nevertheless, there are two kinds of Saturday morning coffee. There is the hustle and bustle of Saturdays that are full and have no …

November 21, 2009 – 12:05 pm | By culhwch | Posted in Reviews | Comments (1)

Cafe Grumpy :(

I love making bread. I especially love making bread in the most ancient way I can. Sourdough. Of course, it is hard to mention sourdough to an American without their mind becoming fixated on San Francisco. It’s like they cannot understand sourdough starters and natural yeasts without remembering the (in)famous San Francisco sourdough bread. But …

October 4, 2009 – 8:14 pm | By culhwch | Posted in Meta, Reviews | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

Think Coffee (on Bowery)

From time to time NASA stirs up the press a little to try to reinvigorate the public interest in space science. But as it stands, most of the public today could probably care less. That is, unless you are one of those few people who follow Science Fiction with an ardent passion. This week Nasa …

September 10, 2009 – 10:55 pm | By culhwch | Posted in Reviews | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Kaffe 1668

At a certain point in any given conversation something rather peculiar happens. Between the first words that two people speak to one another and the words that close their conversation, they tend to hear differently. When they first speak to one another, they hear the subtle nuances that allow them to distinguish all sorts of …

August 19, 2009 – 9:28 pm | By culhwch | Posted in Reviews | Tagged , , | Comments (0)