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		<title>Thanks for the memories!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Suz Strick, Marketing Manager Thank you for visiting our blog. We&#8217;re so happy you came by and would love to give you a cup of coffee while you read, but our blog has just moved over to it&#8217;s new home. Come on over, get a fresh cup of coffee or tea and read about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portlandroastingblog.com/2011/07/thanks-for-the-memories/</link>
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		<title>TWO for TWO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Martin Barrett I am pleased to welcome two new customers to the Portland Roasting family. Two great teams of people, two great stories, Two great ideas and two great successes and all in two months! Meet Molly and Claire from Rain or Shine Coffee house Two friends who met at University of Oregon. Two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portlandroastingblog.com/2011/07/two-for-two/</link>
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		<title>World Barista Championship 2011 Finals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was excited to witness the performance of the 12 semifinalists. It was a great ambiance around the WBC stage; it turned out packed and crazy on Saturday as soon as the Colombian Barista appeared to perform. Everything was going fine until she spent a few more seconds to complete her presentation. From the final [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portlandroastingblog.com/2011/06/wbc-2011-finals/</link>
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		<title>SCAA Houston, TX: No Mechanical Bull but Still Very Awesome.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey Folks, It&#8217;s been a while since the SCAA Event in Houston and I&#8217;ve wanted to report on it, but catching up and then sickness and stuff had me lagging behind. Well, here I am now so&#8230; Houston was the spot for the SCAA Expo this year. I was excited to come out to this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portlandroastingblog.com/2011/06/scaa-houston-tx-no-mechanical-bull-but-still-very-awesome/</link>
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		<title>New Seasons and Portland Roasting, Old friends&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are on sale this month at all New Seasons stores, and this week (started yesterday!) we are on double sale. June 8th thru June 14th you can get our coffees at a whopping $2.00 off per pound! We feel blessed by the partnership we have shared with New Seasons since 2007. Portland&#8217;s &#8220;Friendliest Store&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portlandroastingblog.com/2011/06/new-seasons-and-portland-roasting-old-friends/</link>
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		<title>A Visit to Chemex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a recent trip to visit my sister, I had the opportunity to visit the Chemex headquarters in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. You might be asking yourself, ‘Where in the world is Pittsfield’? It is a small town located in Western Massachusetts, about 45 minutes outside of Albany, New York. I just happened to be looking at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portlandroastingblog.com/2011/06/a-visit-to-chemex/</link>
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		<title>Oregon Convention Center ‘walks its talk’ by choosing local, sustainability-focused coffee vendor, Portland Roasting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[International convention-goers and local event attendees can now enjoy craft specialty coffee from beans sustainably harvested and processed from around the globe at the Oregon Convention Center (OCC) thanks to a new partnership with Portland Roasting. All catered events at the OCC, as well as the Portland Expo Center and Portland Center for the Performing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portlandroastingblog.com/2011/06/oregon-convention-center-%e2%80%98walks-its-talk%e2%80%99-by-choosing-local-sustainability-focused-coffee-vendor-portland-roasting/</link>
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		<title>Colombian Barista</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world Barista Championship 2011 will be held in Bogotá, the country’s capital, early next month. I would like to share some information about someone that is involved in the local coffee shop business as well as the training side; someone that is more in contact with local environment and trends. I met with Julio, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portlandroastingblog.com/2011/05/colombian-barista/</link>
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		<title>Coffee Pulp Compost- A report from Colombia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to meet one proactive coffee grower from El Libano municipality of Tolima state in Colombia. This state has ranked top ten quality coffees in different contests, this time my interest was different. I learned some time ago that different techniques should be applied to make a farm more sustainable, for instance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portlandroastingblog.com/2011/04/coffee-pulp-compost-a-report-from-colombia/</link>
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		<title>Costa Rica, Day Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Emily Bryant In my last blog I mentioned that we spent some time at the mill to see how coffee goes from a cherry to a green bean. I&#8217;ll start with a quick overview of the wet process and then take you on a photo tour of the mill. Coffee can be taken from [...]]]></description>
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