At the Las Mingas Release Party
Amina is Director of Publishing in our Design & Communications group (D&C). She serves as editor and project manager on Gimme publications.
I learned how to make espresso on a Gimme La Marzocco Linea. Unlike any other espresso machine I've used before or since, it had a custom temperature regulator, designed and built by Tomas Reyer and Andy Schecter. The device is called a PID ("Proportional, Integral, Derivative") controller. It's basically a thermostat -- albeit, a thermostat with advanced fuzzy
logic and a Back to the Future display panel. And it works! I still
have vivid memories of the bittersweet chocolate shots it pulled.
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The Cenaproc Cooperative grows coffee at about 6,000 feet up in the Andes, surrounded by the Yungas cloud forest. When they sent us their newest harvest of Bolivia Fair Trade Organic, they also sent this great picture of the clouds hanging right over the forest canopy.
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This is what it looks like at State Street right now. The buzz at the counter is that we're getting 10-16 inches of snow today.

Illustrator Christoph Niemann just posted some love notes to coffee at his NY Times blog, all rendered in brew-on-napkin. I especially like his story about trying coffee-flavored ice cream for the first time -- it reminded me of the first bitter sip I snuck from my dad's coffee cup.
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