Category: Coffee

Sistertech, as with all legitimate computer mavens, draws liquid sustenance from coffee. I’m a picky consumer. I have gone without (and had some near misses because of it) when I could not find an acceptable cup of coffee. The latest investment: a Cuisinart Supreme Burr Mill Coffee Bean Grinder.

It shocking, really, but there are other sisters in the community who adore coffee more than I do. Most notably, Sr. St. George. She narrowly escaped a blasphemy charge due to her coffee obsession, but that’s another story altogether. For her most recent birthday we planned a “Coffee Birthday” celebration, natürlich, which consisted of a truly decadent array of presents: a home espresso machine like this one only larger, a delightful Barack O Blend Presidential coffee from Hawaii, a tasty trip to the Blue Bottle kiosk in San Francisco, and Peets gift cards. So as to go over the top we did splurge for a half pound of Peet’s Kona, a favorite of Sr. St. George’s. Worth every bit at $50 lbs. I’m insanely yearning for Peet’s Jamaica Blue Mountain, myself. I can only explain it as a kind of dangerously expensive infatuation at $80 lbs. Fortunately, it’s practically impossible to get. Do tweet Sistertech if you see this magnificent coffee being offered at Peets online. Oh, yes. She received a CD, Music from the Coffee Lands.

And, of course, books galore.

There was I Love Coffee!: Over 100 Easy and Delicious Coffee Drinks by Susan Zimmer, Espresso: Ultimate Coffee, Second Edition by Kenneth Davids, and last, but by no means least, God in a Cup: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee by Michaele Wiessman. Those are the only books I recall at the moment. Which reminds me, I really ought to have Sr. St George share her coffee book reviews.