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Date Posted: 18:47:58 10/29/09 Thu
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In reply to: dea 's message, "about coffee" on 17:04:54 10/28/09 Wed

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,
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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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