Making the Perfect Espresso

...Since returning to Ottawa in 2002, I have also become a loyal customer of Bridgehead Coffee Houses, a locally-owned purveyor of fair-trade, organic and shade-grown coffee. On a recent visit there, I saw an ad for a "Become a Barista Seminar," that Bridgehead was holding at a local cooking school called the Urban Element. "Hmm...," I thought, "might be good to know what I'm doing," so I signed up for tonight's class. ...Here's a bit of what I learned.

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