CoffeeKid - A few days with the Livia 90 (#)
„Music to an espresso hound is a machine humming away, refilling itself on its own account, and the sound of a boiler quietly doing its job. Music to an espresso hound is that sound the pump makes as the shots dribble down from the portafilter. Music to this espresso hound is the sound of a steaming jet 2 seconds after I complete the brewing of a shot. The Livia is very musical.“
http://www.coffeekid.com/cafetalk/09-30-2000 - Cached
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CoffeeKid - Getting a Livia90...
„And the machine I'm getting? Well, it will probably come as no surprise - I'm getting a Pasquini Livia 90. Jim from 1st Line is hooking me up and keeping me happy, and if all goes well, I'll have it to tinker with sometime early next week. I like dealing with Jim, and there's only one thing I wish was different about his company - I wish he was in Canada so I wouldn't have to pay the duties and such on this darned thing.“
http://www.coffeekid.com/cafetalk/09-18-2000
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CoffeeKid - Yet More Livia Talk!
„It's really hard to describe this, so I'm going to attempt to do some quicktime movies of it in a few weeks. Anyway, they display a texture, but the crema tends to start settling long before the shot is done pouring. The crema isn't as thick as the best Silvia shots, but let me tell you, these Livia shots I thought were stinkers by visual clues? They were on par or perhaps even better than the excellent shots I had at Schomer's shop last time I visited.“
http://www.coffeekid.com/cafetalk/10-12-2000
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CoffeeKid - The Livia 90 Arrives!
„I also find that when we have houseguests or dinner guests, banging out 4 cappas is a bit of a stretch with the Silvia, at least at the standards I want to keep. Doing 4 cappas means that at least two of my shots are going to be sitting in their cappa cups for about 2+ minutes before I'll have enough milk frothed to "cap" them. Most people wouldn't bitch about this, and compared to cheaper machines or machines with smaller boilers, this turnaround time is pretty fast, but I want even faster, and that means commercial quality machines.“
http://www.coffeekid.com/cafetalk/09-24-2000
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CoffeeKid - Livia Kicks Silvia Out of the House
„Plus I figured that for one time (I actually never do this normally), for one time only, I could hit up some of the retailers that have benefited from my positive relationship with them. In other words, it is no secret that Silvia sales have been strong with some online retailers because of the pages I've put up about the Silvia, and the words I spewed often in alt.coffee.“
http://www.coffeekid.com/obsessions/progression/ livia
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CoffeeKid - Cup Database, 1999 to 2005
„As mentioned above, if you're interested in trading or selling me cups I'm missing from my collection, contact me at mark@coffeekid.com - as noted in the top table on this page, I have a lot of "doubles" I would be willing to trade.“
http://www.coffeekid.com/other/illycups/ 1999_2005
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