Thursday, October 14, 2010

Coffee and Technical Problems

Recently, my laptop went on a bender, and by "on a bender" I mean kaput. In these hard times, I will be reinstalling Windows tomorrow. Unfortunately this his has impacted my ability to blog and do other academic work. This issue will be rectified soon so I can post more pictures of my initial forays into coffee roasting.

In other coffee news, my Yemeni coffee with its rooty, spicy taste made a unique espresso, but truly shined as Turkish coffee. Last night, I brought out the ibryk, spooned in two heaps of coffee, stirred, and brewed two delicious cups of coffee. While I can't post any pictures of it yet, I heartily recommend every coffee lover to buy a Turkish coffee pot and a grinder capable of grinding very finely.

In the mean time, enjoy this photo of Turkish coffee that I can only dream of making.

2 comments:

  1. Hope your computer comes back up soon. I've been there and there's no other way to put it than to say it sucks.

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  2. Thank you for the condolences. I contacted a collegue who had a windows vista restore CD, and will be getting that tomorrow. Hopefully it should go smoothly, but I have to do some research at the Library of Congress on Saturday, which requires me to log at the online database.

    Nevertheless, I also look forward to roasting a Rwandan coffee on Saturday. The Yemen coffee was an odd duck, but certainly enjoyable.

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