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Article: COLD-BREWED COFFEE AT HOME FILLS A TALL ORDER.(Life and Arts)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 8, 2008
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Byline: SCOTT TAVES
ICED COFFEE, how I used to mock you. Make my coffee hot, black and flowing from a French press or espresso machine, thank you very much.
Cream and sugar is fine - for children. Once you start messing with the temperature and natural flavor of coffee, it's a slippery slope ending in frothy, icy, sickeningly sweet concoctions.
You see, I'm fussy about coffee. I'm the purist sipping a steaming hot cup, even in the dog days of summer.
Then, one particularly sweltering day in Chicago last month, I broke down and had an iced coffee at a local Caribou Coffee; a large with a vanilla soy topper and one packet of raw sugar, to ...