Drinking my morning coffee and browsing the Internet.  I remembered an On Point podcast I heard way back when about this website, Terroir Coffee.  They’re all single source coffee (i.e. single farm, single grower, etc.).  These coffees are fawned over and treated a lot like wine.  I’m really intrigued about how good they can actually taste, though I seem to remember hearing that you wouldn’t use a standard drip coffee for it, you’d need a French press.  And they seem a bit expensive for 12 ounces of coffee.  Though to be fair, a Starbucks drink would run you about $4 and one of these 12 ounce bags of coffee runs $16.  So really, it’s the equivalent of 4 Starbucks drinks for the world’s best, single source coffee.  (I find it always best to measure prices of things relative to Starbucks: movie tickets for 2=4 Starbucks drinks, new DVD = 5 Starbucks drinks (sometimes 3 on Amazon), new album from iTunes= 2 1/2 Starbucks drinks)….   But i digress.

Coffee has gotten so complicated.  I’m in the camp where if it doesn’t taste like it could have been brewed in a World War I trench, then I ain’t drinking it.  Though I have been really enjoying this Ruta Maya coffee that’s local to the Austin area.  Well, a local roaster, anyway, the beans are all from a co-op farm in Mexico.  Helping socialism with each cup, I suppose.

Anyway, maybe I’ll pick some Terroir up for Christmas.  It’s always good to buy yourself things; it’s the spirit of the season.  Or maybe I’ll just scrap coffee altogether and get some Fortnum and Mason tea.  How complicated can tea get, am I right?  Huh?  You’re supposed to steep it at what temperature?