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Date Posted: 17:04:54 10/28/09 Wed
Author: 
dea
Subject: about coffee
In reply to:
Page
's message, "Did you read my mind? >>>>>" on 14:16:57 10/24/09 Sat
i watched this documentary on History Channel about the history of coffee in the US. then i read your excerpt and something called my attention. if Katie is so adamant about coffee, something tells me she would never use a percolator. according to the doc, it's the worst way of making coffee, because the water boils, passes through the powder, goes to the bottom; then the machine heats the coffee again, and passes old coffee through old powder, over and over, changing the chemical properties of the coffee, making it unbearable. they also said that it was the way americans drank coffee in the 50's and 60's, thus coherent with Katie's reality. however, if i remember well, Katie comes from a wealthy family. i wonder if she would not prefer a French press machine, which makes a very good coffee. they also said things about coffee grains in cans, like Folger's, that the industry began to replace the Arabica grains, a better type of coffee, with the Robusta grains, more resistant, but acid and with not very good flavour. i don't know if Katie would notice that, but i wonder that if she went to Harrod's, she would look for better blends of coffee, maybe French or German. i can't tell what was the coffee market in Europe at that time, the documentary did not go that far, so it would need some research, about timeline and all. just my two (s)cents...
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That addictive brew >>>> -- Page, 18:47:58 10/29/09 Thu
I'm gutted I missed that documentary! I would have loved it.
Katie does love her coffee, but she loves it the way she remembers it being made at home. Since she grew up in the Southern U.S., it would have been made on the stove, in a Corning Ware percolator, warmed up throughout the morning until the last cup would have been more like mud than coffee. Even though Katie's father was wealthy, he didn't start out that way, and would have turned up his nose at anything other than coffee the way they made it at the cafe. His housekeeper/cook wouldn't have messed with anything fancy, either. (I wish I could get her into the story, but can't find a good way to do so. Her name was Deloris, and she was a strong-minded African-American woman who loved Katie with the last breath in her body. She was a busy woman, too, who would have told Mac Scott what he could do with a French press if he'd ever brought one home. *G* Her motto was, "I ain't runnin' a restaurant here. You'll eat what's put on the table, or you'll starve.")
I think if I ever had to drink percolated coffee, I'd not like it a bit, since the first coffee I ever had came from a Mr. Coffee drip. My father, however, missed his percolator until the day he died. He appreciated the convenience of his Bunn, but always complained the coffee was so weak he "had to help it out of the pot." *G*
Thanks for the insight about coffee! I figure Katie did try different kinds as she traveled to new places, but I always see her coming right back to the way Deloris made it.
Hugs,
Page
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you could put it in there! -- dea, 10:25:13 11/04/09 Wed
>I figure Katie
>did try different kinds as she traveled to new places,
>but I always see her coming right back to the way
>Deloris made it.
you could put it in the dialogue, Katie telling Maureen why she went thorugh all the Harrod's ordeal. it was not only coffee...
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Brilliant idea! I'll do that! Thank you, dea! -- Page, 15:51:43 11/05/09 Thu
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