Sunday, October 31, 2004


good news

"starbucks has launched an aggressive plan to ensure coffee sold in its stores comes from environmentally friendly farms paying workers a fair wage. . ."

well, it's an excellent start! congrats go to people like kimberly easson and isaac grody-patinkin, as well as oxfam, who i know have long been on the mermaid's back about this.

long-time readers know i'm always going on about how being a barista is a real profession, and also how teens love specialty coffee. here's a story where the twain meet.

in a spot of synchronicity, i dreamt last night about mark inman of taylormaid. in my dream, he was delivering bread and coffee on his bike to the four-story victorian farmhouse i lived in as a child in kansas (which alas was demolished by a tornado).

we used to have a swedish neighbor who would bake limpa every week for everyone and leave the loaves on the kitchen table -- in our tiny town we never locked the doors, our neighbors were always welcome to come in the kitchen, even make themselves a fresh pot of coffee, and wait until you got home to chat -- i think we paid her in brown eggs. . .

and so today of course in a real woo-woo moment mark emails me about how he's holding the western regional barista competition in feb. 2005 with a local winery. . . i hope he considers inviting the students from the program above to compete. . .vacaville isn't that far from sonoma, is it?

in light of last week's pizza debacle, i'm experimenting today with more oil and a different technique. will post all if it's successful. . .

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