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The other week, I saw Henry, one of our regulars, stick his finger into the bottom of his cappuccino cup so he could get every last bit to lick off his finger. I stopped, in the middle of a transaction with another customer, and asked him if he was really doing that. He replied, “Yeah, […]
July 1, 2012
Any time I feel inclined to begin a post with, “Well, it’s been a while since my last post,” I know I’m writing with a tiny bit of guilt at my lack of blog-productivity. In this case, however, I won’t bother apologizing; there’s too much going on that needs to be shared to care about […]
March 25, 2012
I once kept a blog as a means to update the folks at home on what was going on with my life. As the years went by, that blog became a place to share and to vent, a place where memories were put away and discovered once again. In short, that blog looked at a […]
January 18, 2012
Lee: “Nov. 29.” Me: “Yeah?” Lee: “The last time you wrote a blog post.” Me: “2. That’s the number of stores Quills has opened since that date.” I’m sitting in the second of those two stores right now, a disarmingly beautiful space that is at once both cozy and comfortable. We opened this space on […]
November 29, 2011
“The enemy.” In a recent conversation with one of my co-workers, he asked me if he should consider another local coffee shop to be “the enemy” now that he worked here. I told him my take is that there is absolutely no reason he should feel that way, and for two reasons: Value and trust. […]
October 28, 2011
Nothing lengthy to share here, but I do have a couple of short thoughts regarding brewing: Over-extraction and under-extraction are terms to describe extraction efficiency, not brew strength. In fact, those two things — extraction efficiency and strength — are often used interchangably when they are, in fact, totally separate and only incidentally related. Stir […]
October 5, 2011
I’m sort of jumping the gun on writing this, but, considering the long hours and seemingly endless days of test-roasting and taste-testing, I think can be forgiven if I let spill a small portion of the proverbial beans. Besides, Michael John Butterworth requested more than one blog post a month, and I’m not about to […]
August 18, 2012
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