Lattes with U.S. Barista Champ Heather Perry - Page 3

by **CRCasey** on Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:27 pm

Yeah,

I know, you have to pick your roads and times with care down in the LA basin.

I have a dual TX/CA citizenship. So I know traffic patterns for both states big cities.

by **cannonfodder** on Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:30 pm

cannonfodder wrote:I think everyone is reading more into this than is intended. It is a PSA on drinking more milk, a calcium thing. Not a tutorial on how to pull shots or make perfect microfoam for your drink.

by **Psyd** on Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:35 pm

CRCasey wrote:And here I always felt I was only getting the spiders blown out of my bike after 100 miles

That's 'cuz you let the bike sit long enough for them to make the really good webs. Any spider that was on my bike at any given time was not a squatter needing to be evicted forcefully, but a fellow two-wheel enthusiast who was keeping me company. The bike never sat long enough for critters to consider making a home of it! ; >
And sixty miles was only too far to take my bike for great coffee if I were pedaling one. Talk to the kids at Barefoot about the giant truck that stopped in one evening/morning, and possibly the kids at the Linden St. Blue Bottle about the entire video/audio crew that cabbed it up from the other end of Market just to grab a drink on a break!
Heather, tell the kids at Klatch that someday I'll be close enough to drop in on them as well. You're on the list!
So far, it's been more than an eight hour drive to get there, so...
Not that eight hours is too far to go for a great cuppa, but not to LA! ; >

And Texas has a coupla dozen different traffic patterns! Dallas is a lot like LA, San Antonio is a bit more like the midwest big cities, and coming into Austin from the west, I just get off the 10 and set the throttle at a hundred!

by **Bluecold** on Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:59 pm

When you watched the video from the gotmilk site, it would have made more sense i think.
It's here including an introduction text.
Heather has put a lot of work in this thing, she came up with 11 recipes for gotmilk.

by **Marshall** on Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:00 pm

GVDub wrote:Thanks for clearing things up, Heather. Been wanting to get out to Klatch, but San Dimas is a long trek from Tarzana. One of these weekend mornings, I'll have to convince the wife that a 60 mile drive for coffee isn't too ridiculous.

It's exactly 40 miles each way from Sherman Oaks, so probably about a 100 mile r/t from Tarzana. Off rush hour (when I go), it takes me about 45 minutes each way, but I may drive little faster than you. Also, if you take your wife, you can use the carpool lane all the way from Burbank to San Dimas. I would suggest going on a weekend and combining it with something else fun on the way like the Huntington Gardens in San Marino or Descanso Gardens in La Canada.

by **GVDub** on Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:11 pm

Marshall wrote:It's exactly 40 miles each way from Sherman Oaks, so probably about a 100 mile r/t from Tarzana. Off rush hour (when I go), it takes me about 45 minutes each way, but I may drive little faster than you. Also, if you take your wife, you can use the carpool lane all the way from Burbank to San Dimas. I would suggest going on a weekend and combining it with something else fun on the way like the Huntington Gardens in San Marino or Descanso Gardens in La Canada.

If my wife is with me, I can't drive that fast.

We're Huntington members, so that makes sense. Plus we go for the occasional dinner at Chang's Palace, a great Shanghainese restaurant in Arcadia every once in a while. A day trip is definitely what it will have to be.

BTW, what are the good coffee places in the SF Valley? I haven't been having any luck finding one.

by **Tampy** on Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:38 pm

I just had a double shot at Klatch. I had just read the thread when I was sitting there (they have free wireless) and noticed they were selling the Capresso at the shop. :wink:

by **CRCasey** on Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:17 pm

I seem to remember there being a great antique car museum up there around the 210 corner? Am I mistaken?

-Cecil

by **drdna** on Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:38 pm

heatherp wrote:Coffee can be delicious and fun.

I am hoping we can drain the joy out of coffee if we invest enough critical thinking and technology into the problem.

by **another_jim** on Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:39 pm

Tampy wrote:I just had a double shot at Klatch. I had just read the thread when I was sitting there (they have free wireless) and noticed they were selling the Capresso at the shop.

There's lots of $100 grinders they could sell. My guess they sell this one because they like it, rather than vice versa.


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