My
First……
Romancing
the bean series by Caffeine Cowboy
A lot of chefs know I’m the coffee guy. My friends certainly do. A regular
son of a preacher man, “the only one who could ever please you!”
I have tasted many satisfying coffees over the
years. In all other cultures, making a personal cup for friends, guest, or even
themselves was not wasted on making a bad cup of coffee.
They might add sugars and spices or any number
of creative/available additives to make the drink worth the time. But virtually every coffee drinking culture really
still takes their coffee time seriously.
Except in
America! Even the best restaurants are brewing coffee by the pot. Starbucks,
Royal, and Community Coffee heavy weights supply all the equipment and then
funnel their bulk coffees into 4 Star venues. America isn’t choosing their
coffee like wine. Coffee service is rarely personal any more.
Do you wonder why Starbucks types are doing
so well? I think it is a psychological reason. The beverage is being made
especially for the customer! It is as simple as that! Why else would many
thousands of people spend their car payment each month for not so great coffee?
I am not so certain they are even really
satisfied!
And there lies my mission. To satisfy you!
I am truly driven by my depth of exposure to the world of food and beverage and its relationship with
coffee!
So how did this passion ignite? What ‘got me
in to coffee’?
CAMPFIRE COFFEE
By J.B. Blocker
Over a small camp fire, Old Tom began by heating the
well-cured little skillet he had once carried with him on the open trail. It
was just breaking dark as others were showing up to the rodeo arena on the edge
of town.
He would often arrive before anyone else and
be drinking his coffee when his sons and grandsons pulled up with their
trailers. Others would show up on most Saturday mornings.
This was the ‘60’s. I was a teenager in love
with western lore. Tom was born in the ‘1870’s and had lived his youth in the
time of the last great cattle drives. He was a real cowboy!
