Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you want to taste real coffee as coffee should be, come over to Belgium ;) --- > From: Karen Nakamura <mail@gpsy.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:10:32 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Tea in England > >> 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/ > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >