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		<title>Why the Seattle coffee scene now lags Portland&#8217;s.</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2010/01/05/why-the-seattle-coffee-scene-now-lags-portlands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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The coffee scenes in Portland and Seattle differ more than you might think, especially considering that the two cities are less than three hours apart by train or car, and share similar demographics, climates, &#38;  cultural attitudes.  Sam Lewontin touches on what the Seattle coffee scene could learn from Portland and what it might take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCAA 2009: Wanted Missing Coffee Poem</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2009/04/29/scaa-2009-wanted-missing-coffee-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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Did you know that the SCAA sponsors a poetry contest each year? It&#8217;s true. I only learned this fact on the last day of SCAA Atlanta, when I happened to overhear an announcement over the din, &#8220;Best Poem of 2009 to be awarded in 15 minutes.&#8221; [Note: Turns out the winner is only announced at SCAA, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slayer Log &#8211; Preparing for SCAA</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2009/03/21/slayer-log-preparing-for-scaa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slayer is finally here.   This crazy super traditional espresso machine will debut at the 2009 SCAA in Atlanta.   The Age of Brew Pressure ]]></description>
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		<title>The Super-Long Coffee Orderer!  Myth or Monster?</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2008/05/21/the-super-long-coffee-orderer-myth-or-monster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 16:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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Are you from the Pacific Northwest or do you live here (I mean in the vicinity stretching from Seattle to Portland and surrounding areas. . .  this region is sometimes referred to as Cascadia by sociologists, marketers, and even liberal separatists)?  If your answer is yes,  then this is not for you. This is for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caffe Vita &#8211; Leveraging the BOSCO</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2008/05/12/caffe-vita-leveraging-the-bosco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 18:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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I have attached a picture of the BOSCO espresso machine now in place at the Caffe Vita in Fremont.  
This machine is a classic lever machine.  The use of a spring instead of a pump to provide brew pressure is the main difference between lever machines and conventional, traditional-style espresso machines.  The BOSCO lever has no pump and motor&#8211;so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunity Available! Third Wave Cafe in Seattle.</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2008/04/30/opportunity-available-third-wave-cafe-in-seattle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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Are you opening a cafe or planning to in the near future?  if you are, then I may have the perfect location for you:  right next door to Starbucks! 
Pictured here is a location that is actually available right now.  It offers the opportunity to go head-to-head with the industry&#8217;s Goliath&#8211;and your new store is smack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clover &#8211; Starbucks&#8217; Secret Weapon</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2008/03/20/clover-starbucks-secret-weapon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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The announcement at Starbucks&#8217; annual shareholders meeting that the company is taking over the Ballard-based Coffee Equipment Company, popularly known as Clover, is a big deal for our our industry.  From Starbucks perspective it is a brilliant, but logical move.  But does it undermine the efforts of the independent coffee roaster/retailer?   
 

Refocus 
First, the acquisition focuses the attention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Specialty Coffee.  Is It Still The Affordable Luxury?</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2008/03/15/specialty-coffee-is-it-still-the-affordable-luxury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me the question of affordable luxury leads down a winding, scrambling, path of discussion around the word &#8220;luxury&#8221; itself. Like any conversation about coffee this discussion is also hopelessly mired in considerations of culture and society.  The United Nations defines the &#8220;forced isolation&#8221; of human beings as a form of torture, in certain cases.  Extended periods [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell, Dr Illy . . . and Thank you!</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2008/02/06/farewell-dr-illy-and-thank-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
News has reached us that Dr Ernesto Illy, the founder of Illy Coffee (as-we-know-it), has died at age 83.   I met Dr Illy only once&#8211;back in the early 1990&#8217;s, when specialty coffee equalled Starbucks, at least in Seattle.  At that time, if there was one other company that stood out for its fanatical integrity around coffee, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this the end of the $tarbux barista?</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2008/02/06/is-this-the-end-of-the-tarbux-barista/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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I am firmly of the belief that we are in midst of dramatic change in the specialty coffee industry &#8211; whereby we will see an end of the &#8216;average&#8217; coffee house.
The 3rd Wave cafe has created a gap between themselves and what used to be good&#8230;or  good-enough. They&#8217;ve set the bar so high that you either [...]]]></description>
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