Not all coffee beans are created alike

Mike Lafferty
Published July 4, 2003


The scent that rises from my desk is driving me mad with desire.

It is to my nose what the Sirens were to the ears of mariners.

It whispers: Use 1 tablespoon of ground coffee per 5-ounce cup. Do it now.

But I will wait because Chris Brown told me to.

I had visited Brown earlier in the day, drawn to his business by my long and satisfying relationship with coffee, which Thomas Jefferson called "the favorite drink of the civilised world."

And who am I on this patriotic day to argue with the author of the Declaration of Independence and the smartest president in our nation's history?

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