Sunday, October 29, 2017

Beyond the call of duty …

… Coffee as Existential Statement: A Crisis in Every Cup on Valencia Street - Los Angeles Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)



I just had coffee at Anthony's in the Italian Market. Great coffee. Nothing notably existential occurred.

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  1. The piece is laugh-out-loud satire.

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  2. That Mr Gioia is laughing at these people is tipped off by his providing these key quotations::

    “All our coffees are light to medium roast.”

    “. . . pretty much everybody who works here has had a moment where a really, really good cup of coffee changed their lives.”

    For those who don’t drink coffee: this is hilarious because only dark roast (pretty much only French roast) can really change lives. Sheesh. Dilettantes.

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  3. He is a brave man for undertaking that trek.

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  4. In certain sections of Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg, for example), the coffee snobbery is almost as bad. Ah, all those wonderful creative types...

    (I almost wrote creative vegans.)

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