Coffee, January 12, 2010

Coffee January 12, 2010

In the 50’s I was a Chemex coffee snob, and with good reason, and got Thanksgiving Coffee from a fishing village on the Northern California coast. I have been buying coffee at Coffee Works in my home town since they started roasting their own sometime in the 60’s, and my daughter, bless her, sends it to me here in Ghana. But recently a friend, who has in the past referred to Starbucks as the K-Mart of the coffee world, sent me some of their little tubes of instant. And it’s really good! For as long as I have been traveling, Nestle has had a lock on coffee in most of the developing world. I have had Nescafe in Mexico, Greece, Thailand, Ireland, even in England before the Italians taught them how to make proper coffee, etc. It is always accompanied by a slight shrug and the question, “Is Nescafe all right?” The VIA may not be quite as good as fresh roasted and filtered, but it’s pretty darn good. This is not a plea for anyone to send me more, I just want to share the good things. Easy to pack, or to mail, great for camping, and you can even carry a couple little tubes in your pocket. Score one for the Pacific Northwest!