Dmitry

Just ordered this Lavazza Dek Filtro, medium roast. The Amazon bots love it.

A heretic question: what decaf coffee do you recommend? I would use it in the Bialetti. We really don't need that nice coffee/espresso maker; just for the two of us the Bialetti does well. We also take it camping. Those light to medium roast Lavazza beans that we brew in the Bialetti are just too powerful for me: I get jumpy and freak out. Would like to try a decaf that tastes like coffee. It's not as much about the energy for me, as for the experience and taste.

Don't forget that this price includes a full night of bar-hopping with Van, and if you get lucky, perhaps even a drunken fight at the local VFW! ...Charcuterie board is extra.

Jimmy's living large!

I was thinking more like a chair yoga flyer from a community center.

What a sad, unimaginative cover art…

In Paris, where else?!

That’s actually a not so bad interpretation of an old Soviet “anecdote” (what you call “a joke” in English). Except I think you could cut it drastically, and make it funnier. I would do it like this: A scene in a Soviet art museum. Painting of a haystack, with two sets of feet sticking out of it. The museum docent says to the group of workers:”Here we see comrade Stalin and comrade Krupskaya in Siberian exile, discussing the works of Lenin. It’s titled “Lenin in Paris”. An inquisitive proletarian opines:”But I don’t see comrade Lenin.” The docent replies, patiently:”Lenin is in Paris.”

I had a caffeine rush yesterday night, so I bought my first Dunkin Donuts macchiato. It cost $4.10. I had to dissolve the sugar with a plastic straw (no stirrers there), and more importantly, it tasted like stronzo.

A brilliant record.

One other observation about Italy and coffee: very few encounters with people drinking the beverage on the street from plastic or paper cups; the only instances were in Florence, a major city. One could spot an American from afar: men AND women wearing shorts; tasteless tattoos, baseball hats, worn even inside restaurants. And Oakley sunglasses.

When I was 20 or 21, I saw him at the JFK airport. I was amazed how tall he was; purpusefully, I came close enough to see that the top of my head wasn’t even at his armpit height. I was 6’ then.

My wife and in-laws are French press drinkers. We must’ve had to buy three or 4 of them over time; the glass is very thin and it’s only a matter of time when it cracks. porcy62, as you undoubtedly remember, Greeks and Romans wouldn’t drink undiluted wine. I recently read Euripides’s Alcestis, and one of the characters complains that Heracles was a boor: he drank undiluted wine, the savage! I imagine what we call wine and what they drank was probably quite different. I can’t imagine liking coffee without sugar, but I know a few people that do just that. Love espresso or macchiato with a nice lump of cane sugar!

We picked on up at REI for our daughter who was going off to college. We’ve also used it when camping. Does the job, and is built well.

I had to look that up. Speaking of water, when we were in Bologna, when we would order an espresso, it would be served along with a tiny glass, filled to about 1/3 with mineral water. What is that about? Thanks for the tips on the Bialetti! I’ve got the six cup version. Heating slowly appears to be the most important step; too high a temperature may burn the product. I had to look up the definition of Moka. Interesting.