Espresso arrives in Reykjavík, 1958
The first espresso bar opened in Reykjavík on 9 January 1958. From a newspaper that day: “The coffee there is made with an Italian method using steam pressure and is supposed to be very strong and uplifting.”
Photo: Andrés Kolbeinsson
Source: icelandphotoarchive
musings of a coffee ragamuffin.: No More Coffee Snobs.
I feel we’re at a crucial point in our time of specialty coffee, and how to market it. On one hand, we are representing a premium product against an onslaught of average and mediocre coffee. We are representing coffee farmers who put massive amounts of care and pride in the coffee they grow,…
Source: jasondominy
On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy’s hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all of its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.
“Paper Pills”. Winesburg, Ohio. Sherwood Anderson. 1919.
ONE SHOULD always be drunk. That's the great thing; the only question. Not to feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and bowing you to the earth, you should be drunk without respite.