Coffee Culture
Coffee
culture has changed. When I was a kid my mum made coffee in a perculator and
put Carnation Condensed Milk in it. The Carnation Factory was here in Aylmer
across the road from the 1 million square foot Imperial Tobacco Company. Both
are now history.
Herb the milk man delivered milk to our milkbox at the side
of the house during the week was invited in for bacon and eggs on Saturday
mornings. Rumour had it that Herb was my
father as I am so different from my two older brothers. It was also said that
my mum put warm coffee in my bottle as a baby.
Time
marches on and so does my addiction to coffee. For many years I used a Bodum
filter press for my Joe. A year ago I started using an Aeropress since I only
needed to make one cup of coffee at a time and don’t like reheating it. The
Aeropress makes better coffee but I found I couldn’t use it with some of my
favourite cups that had narrow tops or trimmed narrow bottoms. It won’t fit on
the narrow top and I tip the cup over when pressing down with a narrow footed
cup.
Remembering
one of my favourite pots(coffee pot by lengendary Harry Davis) in the collection at Judi Dyelle’s I thought I
should make some coffee pots to use with an Aeropress. I figure I should try to make the coffee pot
legitimate again. Sunshine Cobb did that for me with the garlic pot. Then I saw
one of Bruce Cochrane’s killer garlic pots. I use garlic so why do I hide it in
the fridge?
When was
the last time you used a clay coffee pot? Such a much nicer presentation of
coffee to your guests than a glass press. There are still some us that prefer a
teapot to a teabag and a coffee pot to a
Experience is
the comb life gives you after you lose your hair.- Judith Stern writer.
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