"If you look out that window, you can still see the original smokestack that they put in when they started roasting coffee here," said Mike Marquard, a barista trainer for Kaldi's Coffee Roasting Company.We were sitting in the back room of the roaster's DeMun café. Sure enough, tucked away behind the heavy curtains that frame the tall windows was a small, crooked smokestack. It felt like coffee archeology.Sitting in the room where the Kaldi's first experiments with coffee occurred was the perf
Image ViaSo you're at the chili cook-off in Belleville, simmering a pot of the ol' extra-spicy secret recipe when some poseur gourmand comes along and disses your batch, calls it weak sauce. Now you have two options: A. Shrug it off, be the bigger man, and let the beans speak for themselves OR... B. Take it personally, hold a grudge until later that night when you get into a brawl at a nearby subdivision and bust a few caps from your AK-47 to let that chili-hater know you mean business.Guess
