[Leica] Img: Afternoon Exercise

[Jim Nichols]

Jayanand, I'm no coffee connoisseur.  I sampled various blends years 
ago, and found a combination that I liked, and that my wife also liked.  
I have been ordering it in case lots from an online grocer for years. It 
is vacuum-packed, so keeps well.  I drink it black, with sugar, and it 
is strong.  My Mom used a gravity coffee maker, and we tried that early 
in our married life, but finally settled on a more conventional 
automatic coffee maker.  I recently had to replace mine, with a Mr. 
Coffee 5-Cup unit using premium paper filters.  Since I live alone, this 
works fine for me, providing 3 cups in the cups I use.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 9/23/2019 9:44 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> Jim,
> We don't drink coffee with chicory, though many do as it is cheaper that
> way, just a 50:50 mix of Plantation and Peaberry. Both are berries of the
> Arabica plant, but the former has both beans stuck together, and the latter
> is a single bean. Both are roasted separately, Peaberry for flavour, and
> Plantation more deeply for strength, and then ground together, medium fine
> for our coffee filters, by bean weight to achieve the blend. Our final
> coffee, after letting gravity do its work, commonly called "decoction" is
> about 2-3 times stronger than espresso, so it is impossible to drink it
> without milk or cream, and normally sugar as well, though I do not - other
> stuff you can use to dilute it are butter, ghee, almond milk, coconut oil,
> coconut milk, etc - all the funny stuff ends up with it being called
> bulletproof coffee, and used by those on various diets - vegan and keto, to
> name two.
>
> We have a local retailer who does the roasting and grinding and delivers
> half a kilo of the finished product every week - there are thousands of
> shops doing this in Chennai alone, as fresh brewed coffee is very serious
> business in our South Indian culture. In my grandparents houses, the beans
> would be roasted and hand ground daily, and had a much better flavour, but
> these are modern times....
> Our coffee is grown in South India, and is consumed 100% domestically, so
> is not so well known worldwide. We grow Robusta as well, but all of that
> goes straight into making instant coffee.
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 7:26 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>
>> Jayanand,
>>
>> I also drink coffee mixed with chicory, but mine comes from the Cajun
>> country of southern Louisiana.  I'm not certain where the beans are
>> grown.  It provides a great way to start the morning. But, I don't spoil
>> it with milk.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>> On 9/23/2019 2:24 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
>>> This is what we drink - coffee brewed with the sole help of gravity. I
>> personally use cream instead of milk because of my keto diet:
>>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_filter_coffee
>>>
>>> The tumbler and davarah essential for the proper taste and temperature
>> can also be seen there
>>> Cheers
>>> Jayanand
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>>> On 23-Sep-2019, at 12:42, Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You both surprise me about coffee. Unless what we each call coffee are
>> different beverages ;-)
>>>> Amities
>>>>
>>>> Philippe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Le 23 sept. 2019 à 05:24, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
>> lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
>>>>> Douglas,
>>>>> I disagree. Coffee is best drunk from a thick walled stainless steel
>>>>> tumbler. You might well be right about tea! :-)
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Jayanand
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:22 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes indeed Jim, my grandmother served me apple tart on willow pattern.
>>>>>> She couldn't do peach as they don't grow very well over here at 53
>>>>>> degrees north.
>>>>>> As for the tea cup, you can't beat drinking tea or coffee from fine
>> bone
>>>>>> china.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Douglas
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 22/09/2019 19:34, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>>>>> Taking a break from my library book, I looked around for a suitable
>>>>>>> subject for a photo exercise.  The most suitable were found in my
>> late
>>>>>>> wife's china cabinet.  Here are a couple from her diverse collection.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The first is important to no one but myself.  It is a single piece of
>>>>>>> English China in one of the many Blue Willow patterns, and it was the
>>>>>>> plate on which my Mother served me my piece of pie, usually peach,
>>>>>>> because we had peach trees, during the depression years of my
>>>>>>> childhood, in the 1930s.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190922-P9220193.JPG.html
>>>>>>> The second is one of about a dozen English tea cups and saucers in
>>>>>>> assorted patterns that my wife inherited from her Grandmother. These
>>>>>>> apparently made their way to Mississippi after a visit to her
>> Canadian
>>>>>>> family members, and have been jealously guarded ever since.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190922-P9220197.JPG.html
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