Category Archives: food

Raising a glass to @AtwatersBakery

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Doc Searls

No sooner do I publish Let’s bring the cortado / piccolo to America than I discover it has already arrived at Atwater’s in Baltimore: And here’s how it’s featured on the coffee menu: @AtwatersBakery at Belvedere Square Market was already … Continue reading →

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Let’s bring the cortado / piccolo to America

Posted on December 26, 2014 by Doc Searls

There are ideal ratios of coffee and milk, if you don’t want the flavor of either to fully prevail. To me the closest to the ideal ratio is what in Spain and Peets they call a cortado, some elsewhere call … Continue reading →

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Happy to have been there

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Doc Searls

  That’s what many thought when they first saw the poster for Hassle House, in Durham, North Carolina, back in ’76 or so. As soon as any of the posters went up, they disappeared, becoming instant collectors’ items. At the … Continue reading →

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Restaurant redux

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Doc Searls

The best Romans we ever knew were former ex-pats there: Charles and Doris Muscatine. We didn’t know them well, having met only once, for dinner in the early ’90s, at their son Jeff’s house in the Bay Area. But it turned out … Continue reading →

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Love the knuckles but hold the bear

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Doc Searls

Typo du jour: I think what I ordered was the souris d’agneau à l’estragon (lamb testicles with estrogen).

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