In the post It’s ZOKA Coffee Not ZOCA Coffee, I spotted a local place that misspelled their coffee wholesaler’s name.
This Cafe & Bistro at Pike Market has a spelling error on their sidewalk sandwich board. If you can’t even spell the name of your 4-letter coffee roaster, you probably can’t pull a good a shot of [...]
Columbia is a city in South Carolina. It is also a University in New York. Colombia is a country in South America that grows coffee. The most common misspelling in coffee is putting a “U” in Colombia. Spelling espresso with an “X” has to be a distant second.
Can you guess where I didn’t have [...]
Hat tip to TigerAl for this piece of coffee trivia. Eric Harris, one of the two gunmen in the Columbine High School Massacre, had an issue with the “X” pronunciation of espresso. The 1999 Salon article “Kill mankind. No one should survive” by Dave Cullen found this rant by Eric Harris.
“You know what I hate? [...]
Yesterday I was reminded of something I read 10 years ago. From the INeedCoffee article Coffee House Sterotyping by Rachel Elliot:
My Espresso Golden Rule is “If you can’t spell it, you can’t make it!”
The article was referring to spelling espresso with an X, but I think it extends further. Making excellent espresso requires attention to [...]
