Recent rains here in Seattle are bringing up another flush of one of my favorite mushrooms, Agaricus augustus - also known as “the prince”. I’ve stumbled across many of them this summer just around my neighborhood. Much of the time insects have found them first and they are infested with larvae. Sometimes […]
My friend Amir and I go back many years, having shared a big communal loft in Brooklyn back-in-the-day(tm). He too left a life of reasonably well paid office/tech drudgery for more artisan pursuits. Based primarily on his history of homebrewing and his enviably refined culinary jujitsu he landed a job as apprentice cheesemaker […]
I am in the peculiar position of having a job that I really love.
I’d been working for Victrola Coffee for quite a stretch as a barista (which in optimal circumstances is the second coolest job behind NYC bike messenger). In the last year Victrola began roasting its own coffee with Chris (the co-owner with […]
This morning I went to a cupping of Rwandan coffees organized by Atlas Coffee Importers held just off the beach at Golden Gardens in Ballard.
Coffee and Tea are Rwanda’s biggest exports and a large scale effort by their government, USAID, the PEARL project and others are working to turn Rwandan coffee production towards higher […]
I have successfully installed WordPress and will very soon be updating this site with articles about coffee, coffee, coffee, stuff, and coffee.
Gallery is also installed and you can poke around my albums here as I upload a long backlog of pics I’d been meaning to share with friends and family. Some of the albums […]
Tonx currently lives in L.A. ("how'd I end up here?"). He thinks about coffee till his brain hurts and then he thinks about it some more. Sometimes he blogs. He can be reached at tonx23 followed by an at symbol which is then followed by a gmail.com.
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