Outpost 505

When I dream of San Francisco, it is more often than not about the Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market.  While Michigan ranks highly in agricultural diversity despite our relatively abbreviated growing season, California’s a whole other animal.  If you’re eating strawberries in January, there’s a good chance they’re from California.  Same thing if you’re eating asparagus [...]

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Our second day in San Francisco was the only one with a pre-planned agenda: lunch with my friend Erin Fae, then dinner with friends from college. Fearing the vagaries of changing hotels and public transit in a new city, I had planned our day down to departure times – which paradoxically made having a relaxing [...]

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IMG_0568, originally uploaded by G3′s Maria. I ran out of fuel on my moped for the first time this morning. Well, sort of. I was riding down Washington on my way to the office when my moped sputtered to a stop. I hopped off, tried to kick-start it a couple of times, then realized I [...]

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This is good stuff, you guys.  I’ve wanted to try cold brewing coffee for a long time, and now that I think about it, I can think of no good reason why it’s taken me this long to try it, especially considering how much time and energy we’ve spent tweaking our coffee set up. There [...]

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Today was mostly all about leftovers, so I thought instead that I’d revisit an old topic from this here blog: coffee.  Where DC was an independent coffee desert, Ann Arbor is replete with coffee options.  In addition to a terrible coffee machine in my office, there are at least 4-5 coffee establishments within the same [...]

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Attorney General Eric Holder’s installation was held at GW’s Lisner Auditorium last week.  Do you know what that means? SNIPERS ON THE ROOF! The library stayed open through the whole thing, despite the fact that H Street was closed and heavily guarded. Tina and I hung out on the street as long as possible until [...]

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So, guys, I need some advice. We have our Chemex, and we loooove our Chemex, but first thing in the morning when I’m half awake and it’s a little chilly – I really just want coffee to wake me up.  But having had our Chemex for a while, I want it to be good coffee [...]

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Our favorite coffee and sweets shop is in the running for best cupcake in the Washington Post’s Cupcake Wars.  This week they beat out Pastries by Randolph, which I’d never heard of until today.  Go Buzz! Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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I realized this morning as I made our weekend coffee that we’ve had our Chemex for one year!  Well, not this particular Chemex (there was an incident with a broken spout), but a Chemex rather than a conventional drip coffeemaker.  While there are certainly times that I miss the convenience of a drip coffeemaker with [...]

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Sometime in early January, I finally gave in and went to Starbucks.  It was cold, I didn’t feel good, and I just needed something warm and caffeinated.  The Coffee Man was closed for the holidays.  It was Starbucks or tears at my desk, and we all know that no one wins when desk crying is [...]

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