Deepa Mohan [31/07/09 06:56 +0530]:
At the time, I was buying my coffee powder from the Coffee Board outlet on
Museum Road; she suggested that I just buy some chicory powder and add 100
gm or 200 gm (as I wished) to every kg of coffee powder. I have continued to
do that ever since. Leo, Narasu's, Kotha's CCD....all coffees are about
equal, in MY opinion! The best coffee powder was (still i m o) the
hot-from-grinding-machine powder at the Coffee Board...
It all tastes the same - pretty much the same grades of coffee .. so-called
"plantation A + peaberry" + chicory. Like different brands of salt.
interchangeable.
Buy lavazza / illy for some overpriced (in india) but very flavorful
coffee. You can find it in most large supermarkets. See the taste
difference.
Then buy leo top blend or mysore concerns for much the same taste
difference (though each coffee is distinctively different from the other,
in roast, flavor etc)
SRS: Allow me to bust your chicory bubble a bit. The acid indigestion IMHO
is a function of the coffee. I come from a family of chicory snobs and I
think it adds to the coffee. You should do like the Italians and eat our
version of biscotti with your coffee-- the simple Marie biscuit will do.
Oh...what are chicory snobs?
Like she said, people who prefer italian, new orleans etc coffee roasts,
where chicory forms part of really expensive and internationally known
coffee blends, not the kaapi in a steel tumbler stuff.
What i'm trying for is kaapi in a steel tumbler, with something approaching
a 5 dollars for a small cup coffee taste.
detest these HUGE cups that I get in the CCD's and Starbucks, which are
meals in themselves, and which, after the third mouthful, are just tepid
fluid...
Then its not brewed properly. The powder you get from there - brewed the
same way you brew it, and in similar quantities, will taste far better than
cotha. At least for the starbucks specialty blends (ethiopian, kenyan,
jamaica blue mountain etc)
and...this invitation is valid for all others, too. Since there is not much
seating at said eatery...it is a standing invitation.
If you're ever in hyderabad at the same time as I am, chai at hotel blue
sea, just down the road from secunderabad railway station. Thick (I think
he mixes condensed milk into it), sweet and surprisingly flavorful.
Standing room only, of course.
