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Alex Olshonsky
Dec 02, 2022
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Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass) by Edouard Manet, 1863

Years ago, I quit coffee like I did drugs. But I recently relapsed. Coffee shops with sophisticated, single-origin pour-overs are all over Oakland.

On my last trip to Piedmont Avenue, I parked my car directly across from Blue Bottle, a corporate establishment that never fails to lu…

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