I LIKE COFFEE

Recently I read an article earlier about 'why I don't like coffee'.  So this is  about why I do like coffee.  I remember as a kid when my parents let me 'taste'   coffee.  They drank it black.  I was hooked.  I tried it with cream, sugar, etc.; black is best.

I drank it through high school and college.  When I was working (in or out of the office) I would drink it all day.  I knew some coffee tasted better but I had no idea why, and didn't really care.

My mother used to boil coffee on top of the stove (ground coffee dumped in a pan of boiling water).  She then strained it to drink.  No matter how well you strained it, it still and dregs in the bottom of the cup, but was good.

At some point we graduated to a stove top percolator, then to an electric.  We had really arrived when we got a Dripolator.  We have, I guess, tried every method of making coffee.  I liked the 'french press', but too inconvenient.  At home we have settled on the drip method of making coffee.  For good everyday coffee, EightO'Clock Columbian is hard to beat.  Pure Kona would have to be my favorite but too expensive.  Buying whole bean coffee and doing our grinding on a daily basis seems to work best.

I like to visit Coffee Shoppes.  My daughter, Virginia, was the manager of the first 'Barnie's' at the Galleria in Hoover.  I guess that's when I became more serious about coffee and began to understand the differences between various types and blends.

I do not care for Starbuck's 'burned' coffee.  Maybe that's because I prefer coffee black and I noticed that most folks add all kinds of stuff to it.  I would rather have Espresso than Starbucks regular blend.  Recently at Starbucks I tried their new Pikes Place Blend; it is very smooth. Pikes Place  I understand is in Seattle and is where Starbucks began.