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"Espresso" for Dummies
The new hotel room includes a Nespresso machine - yes the name sums it up really. It looks right, it sounds right, it behaves right - lots of steam and glug-glug-gluging, and it even smells a shade-of-right. The result is however like drinking cardboard. Quite an investment for something that could (and does) come in a sachet.
There are processes that affect the end result, and there are pseudo-processes that affect the perception of the end results. I'll wager it will be removed by the time I return.
Writing from Helsinki | September 16, 2006 | Permalink
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Interesting: where I live (Geneva), Nespresso machines probably provide the best coffee you get in your home and are enjoying a huge success.
I know coffee tastes vary immensely accros the world and that Nespresso only has one factory (in Switzerland): your comment seems to prove that despite globalisation you can't expect one product (as personal as coffee!) to fit all...
Any thoughts on coffee drinking? to me one of the best moments to share with locals when visiting a new country, it's different every where.
Posted by: al at September 18, 2006 9:42 PM