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WITH its brass-trimmed halogen heating elements, glass globes and bamboo paddles, the new contraption that is to begin making coffee this week at the Blue Bottle Café here looks like a machine from a Jules Verne novel, a 19th-century vision of the future.
Called a siphon bar, it was imported from Japan at a total cost [...]

I’m not sure how vetted the list alternatives really are. Sometimes craving chocolate just means craving chocolate.

Step one and two: Be a tremendous coffee geek (a positive thing) ; have a ton of time on your hands.

Grow vegetables without a garden. Like a chia pet with all the hassle.

Bay Area food review.

I’ve taken to using these “Yummi bears”:http://www.yummibears.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=19&page=1 for my daily vitamins even though technically they are for children. I get to eat six of these bad boys a day (they are honest to goodness gummi bears, just hopped up and fortified with vitamin steroids). I’m hoping the Swiss Chocolatier Scientists at “Toblerone”:http://www.toblerone.com/ labs are working [...]

Beautifully done and well documented. Your morning octane never looked so delicious.

A recipe for lembas bread to munch on while watching The Return Of The King: Extended Edition, which finally comes out today.

The story of In-And-Out Burger’s cult-like following here in the West. The first week I was here, Kovach told us to go to the one on El Camino, which is conspicuously close to where we happen to live today. In-And-Out afficianados even have their own lingo: You can order a 4 by 4, animal-style which [...]

An article about rolling your own sushi. I used to do this myself a lot when I was younger and had more time to cook (~1995). It was fun to do, and I, like those in the article, used many different ingredients as well (peanut butter, or cream cheese with scallions, etc.) since I [...]