Friday, September 26, 2003


uk coffee morning

and to all our readers (about 15%!) from the u.k.: hope you remembered to participate in the macmillian cancer relief fund-raising event, the coffee morning i talked about before!

it seemed to have gone off well from articles like this, this, this, and this.

i would love to have starbucks, peets, or dunkin donuts do something like this in the u.s.a.!

with a nod to alt.coffee, there are those who, no matter how worthy the cause, object to the cost of having coffee out.

you could skip your daily latte and become a millionaire, they claim. note however that they totally overlook the superior benefits of making coffee at home in terms of both cost and quality!

and in an turn of events either amusing or shocking, bikram holds his first u.s.a. yoga competition, part of his quest to make his yoga an olympic sport. . .

and why not? as he says with his characteristic modesty, "it saves people's lives. it is a creation better than the taj mahal, antibiotics, apollo 11 and computers together."

finally, i also yesterday had a chance to try the unusual korkunov 72% dark chocolate bar (and here) from moscow.

the bar has good finish, great snap, nice strong vanilla flavor. but it does have lecithin, thus maybe a teeny-tiny bit waxy. . .

reminded me a lot of cafe tasse, which is an old sentimental favorite of mine. perhaps then the korkunov's a tad expensive for that kind of taste. . .but still very interesting!

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