10625 Obsessives: Get the Shot Tue Jul 17 12:21:00 -0700 2007 http://www.chow.com/stories/10625 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:21:00 GMT One man, many beans, and the perfect cup of coffee Coffee Obsessive Arno Holschuh discusses the secrets of a perfect espresso. http://www.chow.com Meredith Arthur and Eric Slatkin 86 Obsessives 1

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Obsessives: Get the Shot

By Meredith Arthur and Eric Slatkin

Arno Holschuh, barista at Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco, discusses the big and the little: the surface area of the bean, the thousand small cuts that will kill your espresso, and why Starbucks is not so bad.

This is a regular series called Obsessives, in which CHOW explores the worlds of singularly focused food-industry figures. These are the people with the dirty hands, answering detailed questions about the work they do.

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