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Junk Food Taste Bud Quiz
While we are on our coffee tasting journey, let’s investigate common roads we have all been on. Tell me what comes to mind, taste-wise, when I mention these foods: Oreo cookies: crunchy, dark chocolate...
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Longing for a Technicolor Taste World
Anyone who read my descriptions to my junk food taste quiz would quickly realize that I am not very eloquent nor have a very discerning palate. As far as my tongue goes, all I can say is, “salty,...
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Beginning a Taste Quest – A Coffee Tasting Mission Statement
I’m reading a book The Accidental Connoisseur – An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World, by Lawrence Osborne. I identify with him quite a bit. He mentions that he did not grow up in a wine...
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Coffee Tasting – What’s the Value of a Scoring System?
I personally think the extreme in the world of tasting is in the wine business. It gives everyone an inferiority complex about not being able to taste what the experts taste. It kind of promotes an...
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Coffee Roasting and Tasting – It’s Still the Nose and the Tongue
I’ve been experimenting with different roast profiles. I gave my popcorn-popper-roasted Sumatra coffee beans to the scientific adviser of our lab. I told him one roast was stopped at seven minutes and...
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Guy’s Update Since November 2009 – Mission Revisited (1)
So I don’t know how many of you have noticed but my last post was in November 2009. The end of 2009 was pretty rough. My family and I all got H1N1 at the end of October 2009 – yes, I tested positive –...
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Uncovering Hidden Demons – Mission Revisited (2)
So after my slump through January and most of February 2010, this past week I was reading a book called One Paradise Drive by David Brooks. He normally writes for the New York Times and appears on PBS...
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Coffee Tasting – Brain Images
I’ve wondered why it is easy to say if something is sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and even umami (you know, “Mmm. Tastes like steak.”). But it is much more difficult to describe the subtle flavors. We...
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Coffee Tasting – First Impressions
The first time I was introduced to tasting different coffees from different parts of the world was a coffee tasting session at Aldo Coffee in Mt. Lebanon, PA. We tasted three different coffees:...
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Coffee Tasting: The Mouthfeel of Milk
I have a confession: I’m guilty of having a snobbish attitude against drinking coffee with milk. Real coffee drinkers should drink their coffee black. I saw milk as a mere softener of the bitterness of...
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