Blue Bottle Coffee

One adopter — and importer — of Japanese gear was James Freeman of Blue Bottle Coffee in Oakland, San Francisco and now Brooklyn. Freeman and his wife, the pastry chef Caitlin Williams Freeman, recounted a visit to Chatei Hatou, a Tokyo coffee shop where brewing coffee isn’t exactly a ceremony but is ceremonious.
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For a pick-me-up or a new coffee machine for home, try Blue Bottle Coffee, an impossibly nerdy outpost of the original Oakland coffee bar.
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Yuzu Chiffon Cake from Caitlin Williams Freeman, the pastry chef of Blue Bottle Coffee.
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To be honest, we’ve never understood the allure of snickerdoodles. That’s probably because they don’t match the promise of their name, which suggests some sort of mythical cookie version of a Snickers bar but instead describes a glorified sugar cookie, tarted up with a bit of cinnamon. But when we tried Blue Bottle’s version last weekend, we finally understood the heights a snickerdoodle can achieve.
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Chatting about coffee with Katsu of Bearpond Espresso and pics of Blue Bottle Williamsburg Read full article