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Latte Art Throwdown - Sept. 27th, Catalina Coffee: Houston, TX
Latte Art Throwdown
- @ Catalina Coffee
$20 to enter - winner takes all.
Baristas will have 7 minutes to make up to three lattes, choose one to present to three judges.
Judging will be based on symmetry, contrast, and technical difficulty and complexity of the art.
Free-pour only, no etching.
Texas Coffee People + Barista Exchange = <3
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T exas Coffee People now has a group in the Barista Exchange community. Even if you don’t want to have anything to do with Texas Coffee People… you should at least join Barista Exchange. It’s such a great networking and community resource for such a small and budding industry.
Barista Exchange (late on this, but better late than never!)
Matt Miletto of Bellissimo Coffee InfoGroup, and the American Barista and Coffee School (ABC’s) has put together a brilliant community site for the exchange of ideas, education, and, get this, baristas!
This gives the individual barista a way to travel the world in order to experience new concepts in great coffee by working as an “exchange barista” (like an exchange student) at another cafe. Travel is not required to be a member, and traveling internationally is certainly up to you.
I’m a member!
View my page on Barista Exchange
And if you are a barista, shop-owner, or a roaster or consultant(like me!), you can join in on the fun. Think of it as a Myspace… just for the coffee industry. Brilliant!
Our very own Aaron Blanco(The Brown Coffee Co. has also joined, and I believe Mike McKim of Cuvee Coffee Roasters has joined as well.
If you work in the coffee business, YOU NEED TO JOIN THIS SITE!
LOL!
A good friend of mine sent me this picture today. He mistakenly assumed I had already seen it. Not so!
But, I got a good laugh out of it, so I thought I’d share.
Just for fun. 
p.s. - LOL = Laugh(ing) Out Loud
Tuesday Evenings with Texas Coffee People, 7pm Chats
I have been surprised at the kind of information and knowledge sharing that can go on in a live chat session. It’s amazing how much of a difference real-time communication can make in the detail and quality of shared information.
It is for these reasons, as well as an attempt to foster the Texas Coffee Community farther than on a localized level, that we have decided to organize a meeting of the minds.
Every Tuesday evening at 7:30pm(cst), the TX-Coffee.com forums chat room goes live for open discussion.
Aaron is scheduled to be present, as is Dan. Naturally, I will be on as well.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to join in on the fun, or merely observe if you prefer.
Click Here to visit the chat room. It may help to orient yourself before Tuesday.
I hope to see you there!
Home Espresso Animation (taken from H-B)
I was surfing Home-Barista.com earlier today and came across this entertaining video.
I got a good chuckle out of it, so I thought I’d share with the Texas Coffee Community.
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyDxg43jW5s]
Coffee in Comics: Accidental unmarketable discovery
I found this on Coffeegeek’s forums and got a good laugh out of it, so I thought I’d share it with tx-coffee readers.
You could market it with “our special ingredient” with a slant towards the notion of “love” as being the ingredient… or not.
Happy Halloween
Be Safe! And have fun.
Pumpkin Pie and a great Cup of Coffee make great table pals.
G.W.Bush and C.Rice: An Abbott and Costello Parody (coffee?)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHMPGZkp-tk]
(originally found in the TX-Coffee.com forums)
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