Ah, what the English call a cafetiere (?) and everyone else, including the
French I suspect, a plunger. Coffee in the UK is almost universally dreadful.
Cafe Nero isn't too bad, but...
Speaking as one who believes that coffee comes out of a bloody great big
Italian machine tended by an expert, I find that plunger and filter stuff a
weak and dull substitute. Even the French have caught up with that. They used
to have two kinds of coffee - large and small (filter). But you can usually get
an espresso in a Bar/Tabac these days. I do have a dark and hidden addiction to
French coffee with Chicory, a strange and shameful hangover from my childhood.
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On 01/12/2013, at 5:48 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> What Joan got at all the B&Bs save one was a two-cup French press gizmo
> loaded with coffee. As that's not something that automatically destroys
> coffee, I would guess it was the blend rather than the technology that was
> off-putting.
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