Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just to make y'all envious: when I am in Seville (every week) I get a cup of coffee for 80 Euro cents which beats anything I have ever tasted at any Starbucks or other yuppified coffee shop. I do spend more on coffee when I am in New York or London, since the native stuff there is awful. Nathan Karen Nakamura wrote: > > >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 -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl Mobile: +31 630 868 671 http://www.nathanfoto.com/index.html