Those clever baristas
As well as giving us our daily lattes and long blacks — with a smile and good humour to boot — clever baristas at various favourite coffee-spots are displaying their artistic flair. I’ve heard of real coffee masterpieces passing into barista legend. This is far more modest, but still a pleasing aesthetic sight to behold. Aaah, the things you can do with froth … The picture quality is very mediocre as it is a digital camera shot of an image I took from my phone … didn’t have the camera-phone accoutrement thingy handy. This one was in Brisbane at the cafe-bar downstairs from Rydges I think (was travelling and forget the name of the joint, will come back and insert):
The people up in Portland are absolutely insane about coffee, and on the cover of the Willamette Week journal a couple of months ago there was a picture of a cup of coffee topped with a frothy depiction of a cross-section of a coffee bean. Pretty outré!