Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>As for decent coffee, that is becoming as hard to find as tea and I am >now paying $4 for a latte at our local shopping mall! If I want biscuits >with it, they are around $5 for 6! Thank God there is a decent cafe down >the street who use Freetrade organic products at half the price of the >local mall. I've gone the deep-end, the Leica-M equivalent of coffeemaking. We buy our coffee beans green from SweetMarias.com. It's less than half the price of roasted beans and green beans can store for over a year. You can also blend to your heart's delight. We then roast in a popcorn popper. We had a dedicated coffee roaster (round ~$200) but it melted down, so we do it in the popper, which actually gives us more control. We grind in a Rancilio Syvia and produced the espresso in a Rancilio Rocky. This is the coffee equivalent of coating your own film emulsion and doing all your own darkroom work, but it's worth it! Karen -- Karen Nakamura http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/