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Road to Rosetta, June 23, 2010
With my new iPhone arriving just in time — higher-quality camera, better response time — I have finally poured a few picture-worthy rosettas. It’s all thanks to a guy named E.J. Holmes, the guy we call...
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Road to Rosetta, 24 June 2010
Not much to say… just more pictures. Still inconsistent, but I’m getting decent results 80 percent of the time. Someday — not far from now, I hope — I’ll look back at this and laugh at what I consider...
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Road to Rosetta (and Tulips, and Hearts)
Today, I aimed for one rosetta, one heart, on tulip. The rosetta came easily enough (imperfect though it was); the heart a sort of happy, minimalist accident; the tulips not even close. We’ll start...
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Rosettas and more, late June 2010
First one after a brief vacation to the lake. Thin but definitely presentable… but what’s with that weird curve to the left? This is the Fiery Wonder. (It’s made with whole milk, as opposed to the 2%...
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Rosetta: Step backward?
Not a good day for latte art. Not sure why… I didn’t even attempt any tulips or hearts, because the rosetta quality took a step down today. Where’d the foam go? I don’t know! This guy came out really...
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Rosetta: Bliss in a cup, 30 June 2010
I’m going to break my habit of posting a few attempts, and just show you the grand prize of Justin’s rosettas to this point. It was made with whole milk, and was the very first one I poured today. It...
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Rosetta (in the round)
When I was a skateboarder, I could never manage to pull off a flip trick. You have to kick your feet a certain way, to get the board to spin upside-down, and then land back on top of it, and it on the...
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Rosetta: Still figuring it out
At the last second, I decided to make this a heart instead of a rosetta. It sort of came out neither… which just goes to show you that planning ahead is a virtue in latte art. This was a conscious...
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Foam and fortune
Successes and failures aren’t coming chronologically now, but rather depend on a variety of factors (mood, milk, level of business). Anyway, here’s my best work of the last week or so. (Roll over for...
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Kiss My Tulips!
The smart course would’ve been this: Stick to rosettas until I’ve truly perfected them, then go back to hearts — which, by all accounts, are far easier than rosettas — and perfect those. Alas, the...
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A month’s worth of progress
As with most of my habits — the good ones, anyway — I’ve gotten out of sync and basically stopped updating you on my progression as a barista. Suffice it to say that this will be the end of regular...
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Gather Round the Mic (A New Reason to Blog)
So what's this about? You'll have to head to Gather Round the Mic to find out! Any readers I have left have probably noticed my lack of posting. In the past, I’ve used this space for a few things:...
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