The Perfect Cup: Great Homemade Coffee with James Hoffmann
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
YouTube coffee expert James Hoffmann shares the best, worst and weirdest coffee in the world—from his tried-and-true recipe for the ultimate cup at home to the time he tasted 70-year-old beans in Japan. Plus, Don and Petie Kladstrup tell us the story of the man who taught America to love Champagne; we make Beef Chili Colorado Tacos; and Adam Gopnik discusses the greatest food debates of our time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Mil Street listeners, we're taking our show on the road. Please join us for a special live taping of Melk Street Radio at the Art of Cheese Festival in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:09.6 | We'll be at the landmark Orphium Theater on Saturday, September 27th. I'll be hosting cheese trivia, taking your cooking questions with chef Tori Miller, handing out samples of some of the best cheese in the state, |
| 0:21.3 | and my favorite part, even get my fortune read with a block of cheese. |
| 0:25.5 | You will not want to miss that. |
| 0:27.3 | Tickets are on sale now at artofcheasefestival.com one more time, |
| 0:31.6 | art of cheesefestival.com, and we'll see you there. |
| 0:39.6 | This is Milestrade Radio from PRX. |
| 0:41.8 | I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. |
| 0:44.7 | YouTube creator James Hoffman has strong opinions about coffee. |
| 0:48.6 | He cares, of course, about the flavor of the beans. |
| 0:51.3 | It should have some clear personality to it. |
| 0:54.0 | He also has a lot to say about seemingly straightforward details like water. |
| 0:58.7 | Mineral content has a really appalling, depressing impact on the cup of coffee that you make. |
| 1:05.0 | Today, James Hoffman on the best and worst ways to make a cup of coffee that's coming up later in the show. |
| 1:12.1 | First, it's my interview with Don and Pedy Clydstrip about Charles Heitzik, the man who taught |
| 1:17.8 | America to love champagne. Their book is called Champagne Charlie. |
| 1:23.9 | Don and Pedy, welcome to Milk Street. |
| 1:26.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:27.5 | Thanks for having us. |
| 1:28.9 | Pleasure. |
| 1:29.9 | We're talking champagne, especially the American side of the pond in the 19th century. |
| 1:37.8 | But before we do that, you tell the history of champagne, and you start off with something that was amazing, that was |
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