Joel wrote
> Cute wig, though she doesn't look convinced that it's a good idea. What is
> flat white coffee?
>
> Joel W.
Re the choice of photo; that's but one of many I took primarily for her to
send to an old school friend whose family have taken her across the ditch to
Australia. I asked her which ones she liked the best, and that was one of
them. Photos will be send in print form.
Don't read too much into her facial expression. Photographing her is quite a
mission. She and her school mates are all drama-queens and her
preference would be to put on some kind of actress expression on her face,
or poke her tongue out, or some such antic. I did well to get fairly 'normal'
faces.
A 'flat white' coffee is made with grounds on to which is poured milk which
has been heated on the spot with steam from a special expresso machine.
No separate water added.
I prefer it to any other style I can buy in a cafe.
At home I use instant coffee. I have NEVER found any kind of coffee
grounds that makes 'real' coffee at home that I like the taste of. I long ago
stopped looking.
As for Starbucks. When I was in Christchurch I used to sometimes walk
past a Starbucks place and was appalled by the smell of burning tyre rubber
that emanated from the places Something to do with what they do to the
coffee beans.
Anyway, out of curiosity and having heard so much about Starbucks, one
day I went in and ordered a cup of coffee.
It was atrocious. Incredibly bitter and nasty. For the only time in my life
that I
can remember, I walked away from a cup of coffee that I had paid good
money for. Never to return. Oh, there was one time as a student in the
1960's when I was on study tour in Les Vosges or La Vosges ( in France)
Maybe at Remiremont, I asked for a cup of coffee. Well. I was given this
tiny cup of black, very strong, and bitter coffee. Not what I wanted at all. I
don't remember if I drank all of that one either - maybe not. A distinct shock
to the system, not to mention disappointment.
My preferred instant coffee is Moccona; the parent company is in The
Netherlands, but their powder is probably made by a franchisee in Auckland.
Not quite up to scratch, but near enough.
Brian Swale
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