Here is a nice little video "The Art of the Bean" that I stumbled onto today.... especially for those getting started.

jesawdy wrote:Here is a nice little video I stumbled onto today.... especially for those getting started.

Nice to see a shop where they try to get things right!

I watched the video and was touched by the dedication, and enjoyed the content. I've been visiting espresso cafes in my travels, and made two videos while in Sao Paulo Brasil, earlier this year. Here in the States I find it frustrating that there are far less than 1% of the espresso retail market that qualify as members of the "Third Wave"......concerned, educated espresso retailers. In Brasil I found two espresso cafes that would certainly qualify as third wave.....Santo Grao and Suplicy. I made a video of Santo Grao a couple months back, but just today finished the Suplicy video. While they don't concentrate on espresso technique as in this video, they do give an overview of what's up South of the Border!

Santo Grao, Jardins District, Sao Paulo, Brasil (A Restaurant-Coffee House...very chic and very popular!)


Suplicy, Jardins District, Sao Paulo, Brasil (One of three successful cafes run by Marco Suplicy)


Having never been to Italy, I'd enjoy seeing video of both street vendored and fixed location espresso retailers.
Thanks for sharing the video. I've been hoping for more "info and travelogue" style espresso videos...maybe they'll start showing up now?

Best, Al in SoCal

Nice video. One very small botanical niggle- both coffee beans and "beans" such as black, pinto, navy etc are the seeds of fruit. In fact they are what are called cotyedons or seed leaves. They contain the nutrients necessary to get the seedling plant going when it first sprouts and so contain protein and starches that in the case of coffee are converted in the roasting process into the marvelous flavours we know and love. Flowering plants are made up of two major groups- those with two cotyledons in their seeds, which are called dicotyledons, and those with one- monocotyledons. Coffee is a "dicot" so there are two beans per fruit, except that the peaberrys contain only one. However, they are still dicots.

I saw the beginning and was like, "That looks(and sounds, actually) like Jaime Van S. ". Then the text stated that it was indeed him.

Interesting. I never knew this existed.