Coffee Discovery Series: an exploration of Ethiopian Sidamos
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Karen Hamilton
October 17, 2008
Are you into coffee or are looking to take the plunge? Take a read of my first article published this week as part of the Coffee Discovery Series at CoffeeGeek.com.
Article abstract and photo highlights below.
I have a dirty little secret: I know next to nothing when it comes to coffee. This arms-length relationship is mostly a result of memories as a young girl, sneaking furtive sips of my father’s morning brew. Bitter, black, burnt, and tinny touched my blank palate, leaving unpleasant impressions of a bean that should not have been introduced so joltingly through a cup of instant coffee.
Cue Mark Prince, coffee aficionado extraordinaire, with whom I have recently become acquainted. Coffee runs with a bona fide Coffee Geek have finally flung open the doors to a world of specialty coffee, and I’m hooked. Yet I still lacked a vocabulary to express what I tasted in each cup, nor did I have any base knowledge of the particular bean or region that was dancing on my tastebuds at any given moment. It was therefore with much excitement and nervousness that I attended the first of Mark’s free monthly coffee tastings in Vancouver, held on September 28th at Bump n Grind Café, ready to capture the event with my trusty lens and notepad.
Categories: Coffee, Events, Food, Food Fun Facts
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