Video on Patch.com

 

Check out the video segment that Patch.com did after the writer, Ashley, came in for a lunch and loved the latte art she and her group got in their coffee drinks!

Salon Coffee Art Contest

I found out through Sprudge that Salon was running a "coffee art contest" and was taking submissions through this week.  I took a look at the other entrants and decided I had a shot, so I submitted a few of the designs you've seen here on Double Rosetta.  They liked my Snoopy design, and I made the picture of the day!  Let's hope I make top five and get some Bodum prizes!

Go to Salon's Website

Update:  The Snoopy pic also made it onto the blog for Pheonix NewTimes!

Go to Phoenix NewTimes' Website

Double Rosetta featured on Barista Hero!

My latte art blog (and I) just got featured on Barista Hero: "curating the best latte art on the planet".  Head on over to their site and see the blurb!

Pouring for CNN

I recently found a video clip of story that CNN did on Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee in 2009.  (I worked as a manager for LOTH coffee shops in Atlanta for two years.)  It shows me pouring latte art twice: a horrible rosetta in the first 5 seconds of the video, and the start of another pour at 00:52.  Enjoy!

http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/living/2009/10/05/sbs.hills.coffee.cnn.html

The Bear

This is an etching design I like to do a lot. It's pretty easy to pull off, it looks like it's got a ton of detail, and it's got maximum wow-factor. I have to admit, I dig it when I serve one of these at my current place and the customer goes "SHUT UP!!!"

It starts out as a half-finished tulip and then the etching:
1. With the etching tool, drag some brown up into the nose.
2. Pick up a lot of brown and dot the nose.
3. Pick up tiny bits of brown and make some bear freckles.
4. Pick up a lot of brown and make each eye.
5. Pick up some white to make the eyes and a little mouth.
6. Drag out the white to make the ears.

Don't forget to wipe the etching tool in between each step.

And this was for two customers who ordered cappuccinos - one decaf and one regular:


One day I served up a bear in a cortado, not knowing that the customer was a food critic for Creative Loafing magazine in Atlanta. She dug it so much she wrote a blog about it.