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Chocolate – I have been introduced to a whole new world…
In early December I attended a tutored tea tasting at the Tea and Coffee Festival at Southbank (behind the Royal festival Hall) and afterwards got chatting to Yael Rose, who runs The Chocolate Festival at the same location. She invited me along to this weeks event, so yesterday I popped along to check it out. [...]
eightpointnine makes coffee blending accessible to the masses
This morning I am enjoying a lovely coffee roasted by eightpointnine – a new entrant to the UK coffee roasting scene. That in itself is not newsworthy, but what eightpointnine does differently is makes coffee blending accessible to the masses. A visit to their website opens up a range of taste possibilities, without having to [...]
CoffeeTools App Review
CoffeeTools App (£2.49) Produced by bTree Media & EspressoParts (Jon Stovall @coffeetools / http://coffeetoolsapp.com) Over the past couple of weeks I have been using the CoffeeTools App to record my espresso extractions with good results so far I like the easy to use interface, navigable with one hand (on the iPhone or iPad) which calculates [...]
Sensory Experiences
I’ve made it a mission this year to try everything put in front of me where taste and smell is concerned. I know what I like to eat and found I often stuck to the same dishes in restaurants, but in taking the challenge to try anything once have discovered that some of the old [...]
Hampton Court Foodies Festival 2011
When we heard that the Hampton Court Foodies Festival was on again this year we jumped at the chance to buy tickets as last years show was so much fun, with a nice selection of producers and some interesting tastes and ideas to take away. We set off early in anticipation of a good car [...]
