Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan Only a masochist goes to Starbucks. Jerry Nathan Wajsman wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information