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Coffee

• 10.30.09
  Adventures in breakfast coffee
  Coffee, Free speech (0)

  Today is coffee day! Today the mail brought a freshly roasted supply from Great Northern Roasting Company in Traverse City. Usually I like single origin coffees, which I sometimes mix together on my own. But this time I tried Jack's Breakfast Blend again. I tried it back in January, but it was not my favorite that time around. It's a lighter roast than I usually prefer. But this time I noticed some good, brownish flavors that I had never before tasted. Excellent! I'll try it again tomorrow ...
  
  
• 04.11.09
  Coffee, the drink for schizophrenics
  Coffee (0)

  Beer is a social drink. Bottled water is a drink for loners. That's my summary of Susan McWilliams' article at Front Porch Republic, "Beer and Civic Life." Here is a sample of the way she puts it herself: Drinking beer emanates, albeit clumsily and with all the familiar risks, from essentially social impulses. Most people drink beer to lower social inhibitions, to make it easier to have conversations with other people, to assuage loneliness, to grease the wheels for engaging in what my students euphemistically call “relationships” - in other words, to give a form and ...
  
  
• 12.11.08
  Coffee choice
  Coffee (3)

  Speed Gibson prodded me into using the Internet to find Caribou Coffee locations. I like to know where one can find a decent cup of coffee along our route from southwest Michigan to north-central Minnesota, where my parents live. It had been some time since I tried using the Internet to do this. As I looked up the site I thought to myself, Sure, you can put in the name of a town and find the Coffee places within so many miles. But I want it to tell me where I can find coffee along our route. And ...