I have been following this coffee thread, and I would like to make a "small" point...I am probably unusual, but I do enjoy the very small, thimbly sizes that coffee is served in, at our local Darshinis. The coffee (or chicory or whatever!) is piping hot, and doesn't cool off like the large cupfuls do; and the caffeine is in such small doses that one can have another thimble, or two, later in the day, without any worry. I am not a taste nazi when it comes to coffee; I like "pure peaberry" or "Robusta" or chicory blends in India, or Italian or Colombian coffee and also found Tanzanian coffee pretty good..but I much prefer a lovely hot thimbleful to a sip of hot beverage followed by tepid stuff. And the two- or four-rupee "baitu" (how come this has not yet got into the thread...that's one coffee divided by two, that local eateries serve!....) delivers as nice a shot of caffeine as the large bowl of coffee at CCD or Barista, which costs about ten times as much, and which pretty much fills me up as well.
An older generation had the demi-tasse concept..but that seems to have been swamped by the large sizes that the American culture has introduced. Deepa. On 8/30/07, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 Aug 2007 5:54 pm, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > > My folks still prefer the chicory version, that's all they've had all > > their lives. I really wouldn't be able to convince them to try a > > darker, bitter coffee. To each his own. > > > Actually Chicory is not a South Indian additive. "Pure" coffee appears to be a > function of taste, availability and wealth. > > http://www.luzianne.com/chicory_faq.cfm#q4 > > shiv > > >
