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

[Sue Clemenger]

Mmmm....I have 3 lbs of bedouin coffee stashed away somewhere very safe.
Care to get together at the Rock, I'll bring the coffee, you bring the
coffee pot, and we'll let the cabana boyz do the serving? <weg>  We can have
some lovely little middle eastern pastries, while we're at it....mmm.....
--Maire, who likes her caffeine strong and a little sweet, and generally
only goes for coke (and then it's Coke Classic, especially the non-corn
syrup kind) when she's got a migraine....
(and yes, I do admit to drinking the occasional flavored coffee--chocolate
hazelnut is very good, also chocolate orange, which I haven't seen in a
*dog's* age, and also toasted almond, which occasionally shows up at my
local bagel haunt, and for which I WILL forgo my usual quad Americano....)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Fox" <selene at earthlink.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:27 AM
Subject: Coffee, was Re: [Sca-cooks] Cola with sugar...


>
> 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