Coffee Hero

If I read one book about coffee, what should it be, and why?

Is the Robusta bean inherently inferior to the Arabica bean? It was time for me to make up my own mind.

My safety net is gone. Last week, I ground and brewed the last of the professionally-roasted coffee beans in my home. Waiting in the on-deck circle are five pound-bags of green, unroasted beans.

This past weekend, my longtime daily ritual of the morning coffee and newspaper came to an end. Last Saturday’s Boston Globe will almost certainly be the final hard-copy newspaper ever delivered to my home.

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Ounces of coffee in the bag of roasted coffee beans on the left.
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Ounces of coffee in the bag of unroasted coffee beans on the right.

A pound-bag of roasted beans and a pound-bag of unroasted beans.
Identical weight; radically different volume.  It reminds me of the brain-teaser about carrying 100 pounds of bricks versus 100 pounds [...]

Most grade-schoolers have more than a month to go before school’s out, but graduation season is already underway for college seniors.  (Middle school and high school drag on; college is over in a flash.  Where is the justice here??)
Coffee goes hand-in-hand with college life, and it can be a key part of the graduation ceremonies, [...]