accepted to the Culinary Institute, and we are looking for shopping recommendations to your favorite kitchen accessory stores and gourmet food shoppes.(Including Coffee Roasters) Sometimes, here in New England, we get stuck in a...

for your help. Also, any home roasters out there? Is there enough interest to create a local blog?

After reading the topic “ Best Coffee In Montreal”, with all of responses it received I thought this would be a good spot to start asking opinions about home coffee roasting. Just started reviewing the types of home...

My husband has gradually become very serious about his morning coffee and would like to start roasting his own coffee beans. I have looked online a bit for home coffee roasters and was hoping I could get some advice and...

the better the coffee. However from what I have read home roasters typically do not bring out the full body of coffee as commercial roasters. I drink primarily espressos & cappucinos and some of the information available...

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? There are at least a couple of references for using hot-air popcorn machines – is that a serious alternative? Any comments from people with some home experience would be appreciated. I’ve read comments to the effect...

slowly for 3 hours. A paste was ground in a mortar (with pestle) of garlic in olive oil and salt until it became creamy. This was smeared over the roaster, which was then covered with lavash bread. We tore at the lavash, grabbed...

. (Granted, I’m a night owl.) So, over at Haus, Ryan made me a really nice dry cap today. (Sniff all you want, dry cap haters.) It was delicious, foamtastic, something to write home about, although I still prefer the Four...

Hi. We usually get Lavazza Espresso (already ground) from Amazon.com delivered monthly. Like it a lot. However, we are interested in trying something new for home brew. We’re fine with grinding beans. Any suggestions, given...

Any coffee lover is a friend of mine! Personally I have a Saeco machine at home, the Vienna Deluxe. I find that the espresso it makes is much tastier than the regular coffee. I also really like the Italian stovetop makers like the...

In organizing a few months of magazines, I ran across a sample preview issue of "Cuisine at home" magazine and looked through it. Got the opinion it may be a good quality “how to” magazine with cooking basics and some...

They make nice little home roasters now, and more varietals are available for purchase at significant savings over the price of badly roasted beans of unknown freshness. Link: http://www.sweetmarias.com

We were given a coffee bean roaster a few years ago – an alpenrost – and used it fairly regularly for a while. However, we fell out of the habit, primarily because our results were so erratic – sometimes...

For some reason, NYC has all of the sidewalk chestnut roasters and Philly has none, nada, zippo. So, my BF bought me chestnuts and said, here, roast em yourself! So, um....how do I do that? thanks in advance.