The meal began with an espresso-size serving of intensely flavored mushroom soup.
When I first went to see him, he was studying sado, the Japanese tea ceremony, but our drink that afternoon was something else: a thick, dark, malty tea served in espresso-size porcelain cups, a piece of rock sugar in the bottom and heavy cream carefully poured down the side from a flat, shell-like spoon.
Simply fill a tall glass with ice, add tonic (Koppi uses Fevertree) and top it off with a shot of espresso (the size of the shot is up to you).
If you want more espresso than the size you order comes with, simply ask for extra shots.
The cups come in two sizes (espresso, above, $118 each, and coffee, $148) and five handle colors; available at Barneys New York, 660 Madison Avenue (61st Street), (212) 826-8900, barneys.com.
Hilary had just completed a college semester in Paris where she sampled nihilism served up with espresso at doily-size tables, and was moved to generalize about the difference between the French national mood she had experienced and the Israeli one.
These will cost more, but you will be able to get that perfect amount of espresso without having to size your entire drink up.
By using pressure from dual micro chambers, the Nomad can apparently achieve the same results as a full-size lever espresso machine.
With a convex leaf the size of an espresso spoon, Genovese basil is quite different from the big, pointy, heavily ridged basil usually sold in huge bunches at Greenmarkets and farm stands.
A plastic container about the size of an espresso cup sat on a bench in front of me, and it was filled with what looked like black tapioca: a granular, glutinous mass containing a million eggs from Oxitec's engineered mosquito.
To be fair, the Virgin Strauss Water is actually a plastic water dispenser/purifier/kettle. The size of an espresso machine, the red box plugs into the mains water and – at the push of a button – dispenses chilled and hot H20, giving a healthy cold drink or instant coffee with no need to wait for the kettle to boil.
