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I like Columbian coffee, freshly ground if possible, brewed strong and drunk black, no milk or sugar.
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Starbucks carries a special drink that I like during the holiday season: the Gingerbread Latte. It's got a spritz or two of flavored syrup, mixed with coffee and steamed milk, and topped with whipped cream and cinnamon. They start serving them just before Thanksgiving and usually can make you one until at least mid-January.
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Sep 28, 2006 - 2:10 PM
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MWRuger
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mmm, coffee!
The rarest and most expensive coffee in the world is probably Jamaica Blue Mountain which is currently priced at any where from 45 to 69 dollars a pound, currently. This is more expensive than few years ago because of the 2004 and 2005 hurricanes. But the main reason for the high price is that this particular coffee only grows on one side of one mountain in Jamaica. It is very good coffee but I think a lot of the price is prestige more than taste. I’ve had it a few times and it is without doubt good coffee, it’s not that much better than many other small crop coffees.
I find for that for the price, Kenya and Kona are both excellent coffee’s dark roasted and make a good, rich cup.
Tips for making good coffee:
1. Buy whole beans and grind them for each pot.
2. Store your unground beans in the freezer in an airtight container. This preserves the flavor and freshness of the beans.
3. Make a pot of the correct size. Don’t make 10 cups when you only use 2. If you need more, make more.
4. If you do have leftover coffee, as soon as it is through brewing, transfer the coffee to a clean thermos. Leaving it to cook on the burner makes it more bitter than if you just put it in a thermos.
5. Do not warm coffee in a microwave. This changes the chemistry of the coffee and not for the better.
6. I doubt anyone still has them, but don’t use a stovetop pot. The perking makes the coffee pass through the beans multiple times making it bitter and the high heat releases unpleasant oils in the coffee.
7. MOST IMPORTANTLY, keep your equipment clean. Nothing will contribute more to bad, bitter coffee than dirty equipment. Yesterday’s pot of deliciousness is today’s poison. Clean, clean, clean.
Flavored coffee and additives – many purists say that people who like flavored coffee or coffee with cream and sugar really don’t like coffee. That’s bunk in my opinion. The point of coffee is to have a pleasurable experience and if straight and black is too strong, then by all means add cream and sugar. For richness, use Half and Half or even heavy cream.
I am more in agreement about flavored coffee. Adding raspberry or coconut to unground beans does indeed change the flavor but also hides inferior beans while allowing people to charge more per pound. I suggest buying a good unflavored coffee and buying coffee syrups and adding the flavor to the brewed coffee. This will also allow you to control how much flavor you get, from a hint to a lot.
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Then there's CHINESE COFFEE (music by Elmer Bernstein) but Al Pacino won't let anyone see it, far less taste it!
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Sep 28, 2006 - 7:47 PM
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manderley
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......or:
Just around the corner,
There's a rainbow in the sky,
So let's have another cup of coffee,
And let's have another piece of pie.
Trouble's like a bubble,
And the clouds will soon roll by,
So let's have another cup of coffee,
And let's have another piece of pie.
Let a smile be your umbrella,
For it's just an April shower,
Even John D. Rockefeller
Is looking for the silver lining!
Mr. Herbert Hoover
Says that now's the time to buy,
So let's have another cup of coffee,
And let's have another piece of pie!
LET'S HAVE ANOTHER CUP OF COFFEE,
written during the depression
by Irving Berlin, 1932.
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Sep 28, 2006 - 8:28 PM
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CAT
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or.......
Another cup of coffee, another cigarette
Another hour of mem'ries so hard to forget
How your crazy-lovin' arms held me so tight
Another cup of java, another lonely night.
Put a dime in the jukebox, play a sad, sad song
And all the time I'll be thinkin'
about the dream that's gone wrong
And where you used to say, "our love is still alive"
Another cup of coffee, another lonely night.
But there'll be me, I don't blame you
for walkin' out on me
'Cause the way I cheated on you,
I deserve this misery.
Another love has found you, he's a lucky guy
Another's arms all around you,
I'm so sad I could cry
Darling if you don't come back, I know what's in sight
Another cup of coffee, another lonely night.
Whoa, dear, if you don't come back, I know what's in sight
Another cup of coffee, another lonely night.
Another cup of coffee...hmmmmmm...another lonely night.
ANOTHER CUP OF COFFEE - Brook Benton
(Now don't that jus bring a tear to yer eye?)
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