Caffe Oggi

Nowhere to find the leg­endary flip­ping image. You just have to go with this one…

“When you flip any­thing, you just have to have the courage of your con­vic­tions.” said Julia Child, played by Meryl Streep in the movie, Julie & Julia, right before giv­ing the pan­cake a flip on her TV show. This is an unthink­able clas­sic moment: is a celebrity chef hav­ing fear flip­ping a pan­cake just like most of us? It’s amaz­ing that Julia Child reveals the same fear just before drop­ping half the pan­cake on the cooker like we often do.It’s rem­i­nis­cent of the moment I poured water into the ground cof­fee in my Hario drip­ping glass for the first time: the uneven pre-moistening didn’t build an even cof­fee bed for hold­ing a steady flow, then pour­ing too slow, with over­flow­ing a big pos­si­bil­ity.… It’s daunt­ing to think how I was gonna screw up this pre­cious cof­fee, the leg­endary choco­late fla­vor, the flower fra­grance… » CONTINUE READING