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Tony Abbott making coffee
Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott is a day away from a Federal election, and has never done anything in half measure. Now determined to be awake and active for 36 hours straight, even he has admitted to...
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Keep Cup standards
The Keep Cup has become the green bag for the café. About a month or so ago I noticed a massive influx of customers using the re-usable plastic cup to replace the cardboard alternative we offer for...
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Kids and coffee
With one eyebrow raised, I stared down the parent that ordered his 12 year-old son a latte last week. I proceeded to debate whether or not to weaken the espresso shot but didn’t, roughly 80 milligrams...
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Trainsurfing
This was originally published on upstart. As crowds thicken over the weekend, cafés are finding it hard to accommodate the needs of their plugged-in customers. A laptop takes up much more space than a...
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4 things you may not know about coffee
1: There are ways around high prices I’ve seen people get rather inventive when it comes to saving money. A single shot of espresso is cheaper to buy than a latte. Usually, coffee places have a little...
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Punching holes
I always cut off the check-out clerks from Coles before they ask the fly buys question. Between my metcards, license and debit cards there just isn’t any room for a piece of plastic that will...
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Coffee cocktails
Last weekend, I got sick of coffee. Staring at the menu board I realized there really wasn’t that much on offer. Lattes, flat whites and cappuccinos are all milk and espresso with varying levels of...
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Specialty instant coffee
I have to admit something, I like instant coffee. Why? It’s all in the name. Instant coffee was my first. I had an assignment due in Year 12 and the procrastinator in me was forced to take the...
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Post coffee
It’s been six months. Six months since I’ve felt a jug of milk heat up in my palm, watched the espresso drip out of a porta-filter and felt sweat glide down the front of my forehead trying to get ahead...
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From Russia with love
Sailing in from Shanghai in 1925, Ivan Repin, his wife and children disembarked the Tango Maru in Sydney to start a new life. Like many Russians in early 20th Century Australia, Repin and his family...
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