He pals around with Bill Maher, serves as a regular roast master for Comedy Central, and has become an advocate for atheism.
"The real margins now are in capsulized coffee," Mr. Gaillard said, "where you basically sell five grams of coffee for five times the price of what you'd get from regular roasted ground".
Notably, the UV vis-estimated caffeine concentration of the dark roast coffee was slightly higher than that of the mediUV vis-estimated, whicaffeinentrary to expeconcentration that the coffees were brewed using equal volumes of grounds.
The menu has a good variety of selections, offering Yassa chicken with mustard and lemon juice, Moroccan lamb sausage (a favorite among regulars), roast pork (a special not always on the menu), the Dakar boy's lamb burger, and, in addition to the fresh vegetable salads, vegetarian dishes including hummus with avocado, lettuce and a black olive feta dressing and roasted curried garden vegetables.
The dish is pretty straightforward: it's a stir-fry made with purchased fresh rice noodles, pieces of "regular Cantonese roast duck" and mustard greens that Mr. Ng pickles at the restaurant.
"This is pure, good quality," he said, adding, "Once, some farmers tried to fool me by slightly roasting regular beans to remove the sweetness".
"Give us a potato and we can tell you if it's a regular potato, a roast potato – we can even tell you what county it's from," Cassidy said.
Cooks County is offering Christmas Eve specials along with its regular menu, including roasted venison loin, celery root, dandelion and cranberry cumberland sauce; duck confit with turnip and potato gratin and kumquat relish; and frozen chocolate Yule log.
Here's what you'll need to make a mocha coffee drink using espresso: Espresso Roast (regular or decaf). 2 tablespoons (30 g) hot water. 1 tablespoon (15 g) unsweetened cocoa powder. 1 tablespoon (15 g) sugar.
If a desired cultural mainstay is not on the regular menu -- like roast guinea pig for the Peruvian event -- they ask the restaurant to procure it, or find a supplier themselves.
