Coffee, was Re: [Sca-cooks] Cola with sugar...

[Susan Fox]

Elizabeta of Rundel wrote:

>I have an even greater heresay... the few times I have tried coffee, and I
>LOVE the aroma of coffee, it has either made me ill or caused my blood sugar
>to go haywire and plummet.  This even includes the flavored coffees.  Due to
>this, I will never attempt to drink coffee again, although I do love to be
>around it and smell it.
>

You've got to remember that the "flavored coffees" are just 
lower-quality beans disguised with pleasing flavorings to sell at 
inflated prices.  
Coffee, by itself, unsweetened, hasn't got much to affect the blood 
sugar.  Possibly the caffeine is affecting you in a manner that feels 
the same -- a high, then a low.  [I'm not a doctor, I don't play one on 
TV, maybe coffee does affect the pancreas after all but I don't know 
about that.]   Like anything else, if you don't like the way it makes 
you feel, don't imbibe it.

The proponants of aromatherapy purport that the mere smell of coffee has 
an enlivening effect.  Maybe this is connected with our associations of 
the effects of caffeine, but hey, it works for me.

I should break out my Turkish Coffee gear and make the Brew That Is True 
in a more historical manner, I'm thinking.  The trick is finding the 
"ibriks" [long handled coffee pots] that don't look too modern.  Getting 
tricky these days.  I'd also like some advice about tabletop heating, a 
little charcoal burner maybe?  

Selene