Writers Express Their Opinions About the Revered Bean
“Coffee is the best thing,” said Drew Sirtors, “to douse the sunrise with.”
“Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade,” said Erma Bombeck, adding “It's the only thing ‘real' men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity.” Bombeck continues, “To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.”
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“I don't even drink coffee anymore. We studied it a lot,” said Courtney Kammerer, “and knew that for the health-conscious person, tea was a rapidly growing trend.”
“Nothing'll make a father swear before the children,” said K. Hubbard, than a cup of poor coffee.”
“A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye,” wrote Jonathan Swift adding, “But on the highest mount in Wales, would choose in peace to drink my coffee.”
“A certain Liquor which they call Coffee,” wrote G.W. Parry in 1601, “which will soon intoxicate the brain.”
“I do much of my creative thinking while golfing,” said Harper Lee, adding “If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.”
“The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up,” wrote The Taste of Country Cooking author Edna Lewis, adding “because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee.”
“Coffee has ...expand[ed humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours,” said Margaret Meagher in 1942 in To Think of Coffee, adding “The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects.”
“On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee, “wrote Laurie Colwin, adding “Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass...and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.”
“Do you know how helpless you feel,” asked Jean Kerr, “if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze.”
“When a man is down on his luck,” said Robertson Davies, “he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.”
“Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money,” said the Women's Petition Against Coffee in 1674, adding “all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.”
“Coffee is a great power in my life; I have observed its effects on an epic scale,” wrote Honore de Balzac in The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee, adding “Coffee roasts your insides.”
“It's amazing how the World begins to change,” said Donna A. Favor, “through the eyes of a cup of coffee!”
“Black coffee must be strong and very hot,” said Andre Simon adding, “if strong coffee does not agree with you, do not drink black coffee. And if you do not drink black coffee, do not drink any coffee at all.”
“Come on,” asked Justina Chen Headley in North of Beautiful, “don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?”
“I remember he used to like to go have coffee,” said Barbara Cummings, “with the guys at the old Snack House.”
“Coffee smells,” said Jessi Lane Adams, “like freshly ground coffee.”
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Coffee and Espresso Brewing Tips
For tips on brewing the perfect cup of coffee see the Espresso Coffee Guides section on coffee brewing.
For the history of espresso and coffee see World's Best History of Coffee, and for a complete list of coffee terminology with detailed definitions see the Espresso Coffee Guides Coffee and Espresso Glossary.
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