Posts by Jacqui Dunn
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But people - it's still January and holiday time so of course, any news (rubbish, flimsy or fiction) is good for holiday time papers!
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
of my father (who never cooked) grinding up coffee beans which my mother bought in paper bags from Faggs in Cuba Street
My auntie, who seemed sooooo sophisticated (she smoked, drove a car, and wore slacks when everyone else female wore "frocks") got hers from Faggs. The smell of the beans in Cuba St, and the smell of coffee percolating in her house is quite an early memory for me. For a long time, the only place you could get it was Faggs, I suspect. Before Fuller Fulton's, where we bought the first camembert we ever tasted.
Her sister, my mother, was a tea drinker. Never coffee. She claimed it made her cough (coff?)
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Except one could point to France, a country dedicated to proving the point that you can use great coffee machines and still make consistently awful coffee.
Absolutely! Got to have it made by an Italian!
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Certainly some of the worst espresso I’ve had has been in provincial cafes in NZ where an untrained person has charge of the machine.
At least it was espresso! In 1988 my sister and I would travel to Hamilton to visit my dying father. We'd leave before we'd had coffee, and would be hanging out for some. Made the mistake of going to various places on the way and ordering coffee, which would be instant!! The only place in Hamilton we found that had half-way decent stuff, (not espresso and certainly not instant, but filter coffee was) - wait for it! - McDonald's.
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Muse: The High Aesthetic Line, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I’ll rein you in if you’re too far off what I need, but I trust you.” (Or as Stanley Kubrick reportedly once told an actor - "I can't tell you what I want, but that wasn't it.")
Which is absolutely fine...it's not actually lack of direction, if you see what I mean. Any director who can say that, gets the creative juices flowing for the actors. It's neglect, and a lack of any sort of honest communication, which dries those juices up. Actors can, and probably often do, feel antipathy coming from a director. When that particular bogey comes up, provided of course the actor gives a shit, there'll be thoughts/paranoia - "It's because I'm hopeless! It's because I'm so far off the mark s/he can't even begin to tell me where I'm going wrong!"
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to BenWilson,
it’s not crossing my palette again.
My my - you paint with the stuff?
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Alastair Jamieson,
Millers used to process their beans, which was the first time I'd seen it done. Not sure about DKD. Only went there once, and got some of their chocolate cake. The slab was vast, but the actual cake part was only about an inch thick in the middle; however the whole slice was about four inches thick, so guess what was in the gap? Chocolate icing.
And before you say, Yum - that much chocolate icing was just a crint too much!
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Shaun Lott,
In my experience, Starbucks are even mediocre on their home turf
First Starbucks' coffee I ever had - and the last - was in Los Angeles. Ghastly! I'd rather not have coffee than have another one of theirs.
Its milkshake-style drinks are really coffee for non coffee-drinkers.
Only marginally better, in my opinion, than instant coffee.
And honestly, where does this man Field get off? What a load of codswallop!
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
attributing non-existent quotes (--) was considered a no-brain #journalismfail
Along the lines of interviewing one's own typewriter/word processor?
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Up Front: Giving Me Grief, in reply to Megan Wegan,
But even if it is there, I wouldn't have ever seen it.
It's more recent than that, anyway.
ETA: Unless you mean it was in Russell's post. But the above still applies....