Digital Matter
notes, recipes & marginalia from tāst
latest · volume 3
The Black Russian
This one's a little fussy. It's like a white Russian, with some seasoning.
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Never Too Much
This is foam architecture — egg white whipped tight, demerara doing the work that simple syrup can't, lemony vermouth cutting through the...
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Brew & Tonic
Drink it through the stack, then through the swirl, then through the bottom where the bitter and the bittersweet have become one.
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Lazy Carajillo
It's the carajillo that lingers. The one you take your time with on a tile patio in July, not the one you knock back at the bar.
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The John Lynch
Cold brew up top, lemonade underneath, doing the harder thing without asking for it.
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Japanese Iced Coffee
Like Summer, hot and heavy, sticky sweet, popsicle, chlorine, sunscreen, dancing in the dark, sweating with strangers, falling in love, o...
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Java - West Java Sunda Badak
When I was young and had to go down south to visit Grandma Jean, she would wake me at dawn. Take me out to the fields and show me how to ...
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Brazil Serra Negra
Sure, camping sounds better than sleeping outside. But we're still sleeping outside. And you had the nerve to laugh when I suggested we b...
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Abaya
A father crouched onto a tiny chair, sipping his daughter's invisible tea while they gossip about — and scoff at — the smell of coffee dr...