Today is my last day on the West Coast. I have been in Seattle since Friday, tying up all kinds of loose ends. So this extended period of floating around away from New York is coming to an end and we're about to jump back into things full force in Gotham.
I've neglected the café reviews this time around because it's only been a few months since I was here last, and that kind of thing can get a little old. Suffice to say that the coffee is still damn good out here (provided you go to the right places), and that on the day it was 99 in NYC and people were literally dying from heat stroke, it was around 50 degrees and misting and so windy in downtown Seattle that I almost lost my footing just standing on the street corner.
I'm bringing all kinds of interesting green coffee (Ethiopians, Kenyans, Brazilian, Panamanian and a couple of Sumatrans) to roast up and cup (or just, ahem, you know, drink). This will come in very handy because at last count we have four events sceduled for the next couple of weeks... tomorrow night (read the post below this one); New Amsterdam Market on June 29 (more on Neil's project there forthcoming); coffee brunch at Bobbie's on the 21st; plus another Ethiopia Limited event between now and the first week of July. Plus I think we have to do a hardcore NYCS coffee-scoring class between now and then, too.
My next out-of-country trip will be to Ethiopia in July. In the meantime, it will be all New York, all the time. Other upcoming goals include getting a new camera (this blog is looking awfully drab, methinks), and setting up some cool long-term monthly programs centered around coffee quality in NYC. More on that last one to come soon.
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