Bellissimo Media Productions To Release "Training with the Champions" in June

(Drinks Media Wire). Bellissimo Coffee InfoGroup, the specialty coffee industry's leader in consulting and the production of award-winning coffee education and training DVDs, including “Espresso 101,” “The Passionate Harvest” and “Advanced Barista Training: Extreme Pours, announces the release this June of its new training DVD, "Training with the Champions."

"Training with the Champions" was filmed over the course of a year at the American Barista & Coffee School in Portland, Oregon and is the first training DVD in which regional, national and world barista champions share their passion and skills one-on-one with the coffee world.

The DVD will be approximately 45-minutes, with each champion barista sharing his or her techniques and philosophy of coffee and espresso, as well as what it takes to be a champion. The DVD is edited in a documentary style and is an extremely effective training tool.

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Cape Times South Africa

The Cup of Excellence is an annual award which takes place all over world with the best coffee beans going to auction on the internet. Guatemala hosts one of the most prestigious COE events with 120 bags for sale. Two bags of Viviano Jalapa won the toss last year and were nabbed by David Donde and Joel Singer of Origin Coffee Roasting, writes ROBYN COHEN.

"What do you think, take your time …," says David Donde serving up espresso A and espresso B in little glasses with the requisite layering of crema (coffee foam).

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Toronto Star

Open just eight days now, the first Canadian (and second North American) outpost of an Israeli espresso bar chain is raising the culinary bar for coffee houses.

Aroma Espresso Bar, at Bloor and Bathurst, does an impressive job with its espresso-based drinks ($1.80 to $4).

More intriguing, though, is how it prepares 12 sandwiches ($7.80 to $8.80, prices lower for half), four salads ($8.90) and an all-day Power Breakfast ($8.90) in its semi-open kitchen.

"Everything is prepared on your order, and it's not going to take more than a few minutes. Nothing sits there waiting for you to pick it up," says Anat Davidzon, operating partner for Aroma Espresso Bar Canada.

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