Espresso Making Perfection - Learn how to make the perfect espresso at home every single time! A recent study has shown that 90% of Starbucks baristas have no idea how to make great espresso. By reading this book, you'll be able to teach them a thing or two such as: - What are the best beans for espresso? - Where is the best place to get them? - How to grind your own beans and what is the best grinder! - How to store your beans to ensure maximum freshness! - The secret ingredient, so simple, so obvious yet few baristas know about! - The simple technique that takes 20 seconds and improves the taste of your espresso! - Correct tamping technique! - The exact brewing sequence I use to brew perfect espresso! - My recommended automatic, semi-automatic and manual espresso machines. - Also, my espresso drink recipes! Espresso making perfection is very simple to learn, there is no fluff or filler, just to the point! You don't need an expensive espresso machine to make incredible espresso. But you do need good technique. Learn how here!

Follow the ultimate coffee geeks on their worldwide hunt for the best beans. Can a cup of coffee reveal the face of God? Can it become the holy grail of modern-day knights errant who brave hardship and peril in a relentless quest for perfection? Can it change the world? These questions are not rhetorical. When highly prized coffee beans sell at auction for $50, $100, or $150 a pound wholesale (and potentially twice that at retail), anything can happen. In God in a Cup, journalist and late-blooming adventurer Michaele Weissman treks into an exotic and paradoxical realm of specialty coffee where the successful traveler must be part passionate coffee connoisseur, part ambitious entrepreneur, part activist, and part Indiana Jones. Her guides on the journey are the nation’s most heralded coffee business hotshots: Counter Culture’s Peter Giuliano, Intelligentsia’s Geoff Watts, and Stumptown’s Duane Sorenson. With their obsessive standards and fiercely competitive baristas, these roasters are creating a new culture of coffee connoisseurship in America—a culture in which $10 lattes are both a purist’s pleasure and a way to improve the lives of third-world farmers. If you love a good cup of coffee—or a great adventure story—you’ll love this unprecedented up-close look at the people and passions behind today’s best beans. “Weissman illustrates how the origin, flavor compounds and socioeconomic impact of a cup of coffee are relevant now more than ever. . . . Tagging along behind the main characters in today’s specialty coffee scene, [she] travels from the exotic to the expected to artfully deconstruct the connoisseur’s cup of coffee.” —Publishers Weekly

Want to perfect your home brew? Or hone your barista skills? Let this book be your definitive guide to making the very best coffee. From espresso expert Jason Scheltus, this book will help elevate your morning coffee to absolute brew perfection. Each step of the process--from the farm to your mug is unpacked. You'll learn about the properties of beans, like growing conditions, varieties, picking, drying, and roasting. Then the real nitty-gritty stuff: grinding, tamping, extraction, and manual brewing methods. How do steaming techniques differ between whole milk and soy, or from oat to almond? This ultimate coffee guide tells all. For those playing at home, this book demystifies the inscrutable realm of coffee paraphernalia. Chemex versus pour over. Moccamaster or Moka Express. Syphon and Cold Brew. Learn how to choose the right gadgets for your needs, keeping your countertop free of needless appliances. Did you know that there are seven different classifications of coffee grounds? Most homebrewers are, tragically, using the wrong one. Jason explains how to get your grind right, so you'll achieve the perfect coffee every time. Whether you're a professional barista using a custom-built La Marzocco, or still clinging to the same ragged French press from your freshman dorm, there's always room to improve your coffee skills.

The debut cookbook by the creator of the wildly popular blog Damn Delicious proves that quick and easy doesn't have to mean boring.Blogger Chungah Rhee has attracted millions of devoted fans with recipes that are undeniable 'keepers'-each one so simple, so easy, and so flavor-packed, that you reach for them busy night after busy night. In Damn Delicious, she shares exclusive new recipes as well as her most beloved dishes, all designed to bring fun and excitement into everyday cooking. From five-ingredient Mini Deep Dish Pizzas to no-fuss Sheet Pan Steak & Veggies and 20-minute Spaghetti Carbonara, the recipes will help even the most inexperienced cooks spend less time in the kitchen and more time around the table.Packed with quickie breakfasts, 30-minute skillet sprints, and speedy takeout copycats, this cookbook is guaranteed to inspire readers to whip up fast, healthy, homemade meals that are truly 'damn delicious!'

"The clamor of the cups hitting the saucers, the sounds of the coffee grinder, the machine and the steamer, the smells of coffee and fresh pastries, the counter filling with customers making a million different requests the "baristi" had no trouble remembering, the ordered chaos of people finishing their items and then moving along as the next group arrived, chatting, laughing, enjoying their short time together at the bar. Every espresso bar had its own characteristics, and some I sought purposely looking for a certain atmosphere or because I especially liked their "crema di caffè." Others I happened into because they caught my eye while I was heading somewhere else. When out and about with family and friends, there was never question of if we would "prendere un caffè" but there was usually some discussion about where. ESPRESSO explores the art and soul of Italy through the production, popular imagery, and ritual of coffee"--

The worldwide bestseller - 1/3 million copies sold 'With his expert guidance we travel around the globe, from Burundi to Honduras via Vietnam, sipping and spitting as we go. This is high geekery made palatable by the evident love pulsing through every sentence.' - The Guardian 'The subject of coffee has never been more, er, hot, and The World Atlas of Coffee takes a close look at its history and evolution, the international range of beans and all the best ways to enjoy coffee. Great pics too.' - Susy Atkins, The Telegraph For everyone who wants to understand more about coffee and its wonderful nuances and possibilities, this is the book to have. Coffee has never been better, or more interesting, than it is today. Coffee producers have access to more varieties and techniques than ever before and we, as consumers, can share in that expertise to make sure the coffee we drink is the best we can find. Where coffee comes from, how it was harvested, the roasting process and the water used to make the brew are just a few of the factors that influence the taste of what we drink. Champion barista and coffee expert James Hoffmann examines these key factors, looking at varieties of coffee, the influence of terroir, how it is harvested and processed, the roasting methods used, through to the way in which the beans are brewed. Country by country - from Bolivia to Zambia - he then identifies key characteristics and the methods that determine the quality of that country's output. Along the way we learn about everything from the development of the espresso machine, to why strength guides on supermarket coffee are really not good news. This is the first book to chart the coffee production of over 35 countries, encompassing knowledge never previously published outside the coffee industry.

Coffee has been one of humanity's most favoured drinks for centuries now. It was the Boston Tea Party in 1773 that really kicked off America's love for coffee, and coffee has remained the national drink ever since.Today, It is hard to take a stroll through a city in America, or anywhere else in the world without coming across a coffee shop. Most of these coffee shops sell more than just standard coffee drinks. Most people who enter these shops, are also almost never interested in the standard coffee cup. Most of the customers of these shops seek exotic versions of the standard coffee drinks. These exotic versions have exotic names such as- Cappuccino Royale, Espresso con Panna, Mochaccino, Latte Macchiato, etc. The list is endless. You will find lots of coffee shops with coffee drinks you've never even heard of, and recipes and blends of coffee you've never even tasted.Just like any other ingredient, you can a lot with coffee. It is up to your imagination really, but in order to awaken your imagination, you will do well to learn what others have come up with before you, and that is what this book is for. There are plenty of well-known insanely delicious exotic and gourmet coffee drinks that already exist, and in this book, I will teach you everything you need to know to start making these recipes right at home!

This is an inspirational guide to baking from the winner of 'The Great British Bake Off 2010'. From the traditional to new twists on old favourites there are recipes to suit all abilities. The book covers cakes, cookies, pastry, desserts, and even ice-creams.