Italian Holiday Baking
This holiday season, I’ve been exploring coffee-forward Italian baking! Read on for my best Biscotti, Tiramisu, Gelato, and Affogato recipes
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Lacey Ramirez
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
Yoga for Chocolate Lovers
Join me for restorative heart-opening yoga and a mindful chocolate tasting!
Lacey Ramirez
- Jul 24, 2021
- 8 min
Mexican Baking Month: Tres Leches Two Ways and Iced Hot Chocolate
My Mexican baking challenge: one month, one cake, one drink, each two ways. Read on for how to make Tres Leches and Hot Chocolate.
Lacey Ramirez
- May 24, 2021
- 4 min
Medi-Tasting: Pairing Mindfulness with Wine
Medi-Tasting is the new concept that pairs mindfulness with wine. How does it work? And how else can we bring mindfulness to wine-tasting?
Lacey Ramirez
- May 1, 2019
- 4 min
Celebrated: Celebrating Life through Delicious Vegan Treats
In this article, I share my conversation with Becky Morris, founder of Celebrated vegan bakery. Becky Morris believes in indulging in...
Lacey Ramirez
- Jan 30, 2019
- 3 min
Nutty Chocolate Sea Salt Homemade Granola
Baking homemade granola is a delicious, easy, and inexpensive way to start any day. Here is my favorite recipe… Major life changes have...
Lacey Ramirez
- Dec 25, 2018
- 5 min
10 Best Specialty Coffee Shops in Paris
Here’s a peek into my favorite specialty coffee shops in Paris. Last summer, needed desperately to decompress from a failed PhD program...
Lacey Ramirez
- Dec 18, 2018
- 5 min
Sharing Coffee at Coutume Café with France’s Champion Barista
For the final Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down for coffee with Caroline, France’s Champion Barista and Wholesale Manager at...
Lacey Ramirez
- Dec 15, 2018
- 5 min
La Fontaine de Belleville bridges the gap between “café” and specialty coffee
For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Thomas, the co-founder of La Fontaine de Belleville to discuss his mission to...
Lacey Ramirez
- Dec 7, 2018
- 3 min
Mindfulness and Moderation: The Ingredients in French Wine Culture
The Winter 2018 issue of Gastronomica features my research paper “A Tale of Two Cities: Differences in Wine-Drinking Culture in Nice and...
Lacey Ramirez
- Nov 28, 2018
- 6 min
Recipes from a Vegan Thanksgiving
Each family has their eccentricities, and mine has many. After moving away from home, I have grown to accept the things that I will never...
Lacey Ramirez
- Oct 31, 2018
- 4 min
My father, the home coffee roaster
As a child, I swore I would never drink coffee. I would plug my nose and hide my 5-year-old body behind my father’s long legs as he...
Lacey Ramirez
- Sep 12, 2018
- 6 min
High on chocolat? What to expect from a Parisian cacao ceremony
As a child, chocolate was my weapon of choice. I lived with desserts on lock-down in a nutrition-conscious home. I nibbled at my main...
Lacey Ramirez
- Sep 5, 2018
- 4 min
Matamata and the Rise of the Coworking Space
For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Gaël, the co-founder of Matamata to discuss the rise of the co-working space and...
Lacey Ramirez
- Aug 30, 2018
- 6 min
KB Cafeshop and the rise of the superbarista
For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Nicolas, the Founder of KB Cafeshop to discuss the rise of the superbarista and...
Lacey Ramirez
- Aug 21, 2018
- 5 min
Holybelly: A Taste of Melbourne in Paris
For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Nico, the Founder of Holybelly, to discuss his intention to bring a little taste...
Lacey Ramirez
- Aug 15, 2018
- 6 min
Ten Belles: Where Wine May Be the Answer to Coffee
For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I spoke with Anselme, the owner of Ten Belles, to discuss the ways in which wine may be the...
Lacey Ramirez
- Aug 7, 2018
- 6 min
Café Lomi and the Moral Dilemma of the $5 Latte
For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Paul, a roaster at Café Lomi, to discuss the city’s coffee scene and the ethical...
Lacey Ramirez
- Jul 30, 2018
- 4 min
Paris Specialty Coffee Spotlight: Café Loustic
The Paris Coffee Revolution has built upon the café culture of the city to include space for specialty coffee. Characteristically burnt...
Lacey Ramirez
- Jul 17, 2018
- 6 min
5 Ways to Make Coffee: A Voyage to Discover “True Coffee” at La Caféothèque, Paris
« Qu’est-ce qu’un vrai café ? » (“What is ‘true coffee’?”) was the opening question of a two-hour training at La Caféothèque. In any...
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