On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:40:50AM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > I grew up in the hills, where I used to harvest coffee beans from our > home garden and help out in getting them dried, roasted and brewed. > Now that was exciting, but I am not sure if it ever could be termed > gourmet coffee.
You could have started a farm of Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, and grew rich. > Unlike Charles, I gave up on convincing the kitchen staff at work to > not pre-grind ginormous quantities of the beans every morning. Anyway, > I don't much like the beans that are used at work; I've turned to > drinking more chai these days. Interestingly enough, in Russia chai refers to the common tea, usually brewed very strong in tiny pots, held warm on top of samowars, from which hot water to dilute it issues. The stuff they sell as chai is California is truly vile, and I had to spit it out. > I get my beans from Coffee Day ground in my presence. My apartment is > right next door to one of their stores, I usually buy a week's supply > at a time. I used to be an FTGFOP Darjeeling addict, but I can't drink anything else than green tea (aromatized with lemons/lemon grass, ick) these days. The bitterer, the betterer. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
