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Category: Coffee Culture
Ricardo’s Coffee Culture Attends Cupping Event at Pilot’s Ossington café.
What’s a cupping session, coffee aficionados might ask? It’s similar to a blind wine tasting only with coffee. It has multiple parts, while in wine tastings, the liquid is poured and sniffed and tasted. That’s it. Pilot Coffee Roasters recently held a public cupping event at its 117 Ossington Café. Cuppings apparently are held almost daily…
While supplies last, local roasters still have tasty holiday blends in stock
Although the holiday season is waning and Christmas passed without any whiteness, the province’s coffee roasters still have some supplies of specialty holiday blends, and this is a survey of some of the better ones, locally and on the coasts. The descriptions are wonderfully fanciful too and so are the blends; the roasters seem to…
The Coffee Cantata: coffee and me, coffee and the world
Every morning, all around the world, more than 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed each day. And I am one of those drinkers as I am sure if you are reading this, you are too. We can’t start the day without that cup, in whatever form. I either fire up my Saeco PicoBarista and pull a…
Ricardo’s adds coffee culture to blog
Gelato and Espresso go together like love and marriage or something like that. Two peas in a pod. And in Italy, the Mother Church of Gelato, every gelateria serves truly excellent espresso. Thankfully that is the case here, too. Coffee culture means coffee bars, roasters, accessory places and other developments in the GTA coffee scene….
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