Since I don't really have time to write quality posts for you these days (sorry, adoring fan!) the only proper thing to do is to pass the buck to other bloggers. David Lebovitz just posted a wonderful piece on lessons he learned at Illy espresso camp (ok, Universita del Caffe). I've been making myself double Americanos every morning since... oh, August 1998? on a 1993-vintage Krups espresso machine. I haven't had time to read all the details in David's post (enough with the "I'm too busy protests", already! Sheesh) but I'm sure there are some tips I'll use to improve my game. Now that I have the mother of all coffee grinders, I think I'm ready to up my game. Now if I could only learn how to make latte foam art like the baristas at Hotwire, my favorite local coffee house.