Why I subscribe to @TonxCoffee: coffee; wit; design. (Referral link: https://tonx.org/a1aecacf)
Working? What you want on the desk or tabletop isn’t an attempt to reproduce the perfect macchiato or ristretto. That stuff in the huge mug? It’s a great warm bath of instant coffee. Perfect.
A dessert-spoonful of the granules. A slosh of milk and boiling water, and the black scum rises to the surface and slowly dissolves. Writers like their rituals, and almost always, as I carry the mug from the kitchen to the dining table I write on, the first sentence of the morning takes its form. Is it delicious? I really don’t know – you might as well ask the same thing about toothpaste. It’s just a daily presence, and if you ever laid off it, you’d certainly miss it and look forward to its return.
"An ode to instant coffee by Philip Hensher.
What’s the best way to drink coffee? Writers on their caffeine habits
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Coffee: Preventing Scurvy Since 1650
In 1650, St. Michael’s Alley, London’s first coffee shop, placed an ad in a newspaper. That ad — archived in the British Museum, and Internet-ed by the Vintage Ads LiveJournal — extolled the many Vertues of the newly discovered beverage. Which “groweth upon little Trees, only in the Deserts of Arabia,” and which is — despite and ostensibly because of its Vertues — “a simple innocent thing.”
What’s amazing about the ad — besides, obviously, its crazy claim that coffee can prevent Mif-carryings in Child-bearing Women — is how flagrantly its copyrighters flung the Vertues they extol. Per these 17th-century Mad Men, coffee could be used to aid and/or prevent: indigestion, headaches, lethargy, drowsiness, arthritis, sore eyes, cough, consumption, “spleen,” dropsy, gout, scurvy, and — my personal favorite — hypochondria.
Read more. [Image: British Museum]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79bdhhpm41qcokc4o1_250.jpg)
Coffee: Preventing Scurvy Since 1650
In 1650, St. Michael’s Alley, London’s first coffee shop, placed an ad in a newspaper. That ad — archived in the British Museum, and Internet-ed by the Vintage Ads LiveJournal — extolled the many Vertues of the newly discovered beverage. Which “groweth upon little Trees, only in the Deserts of Arabia,” and which is — despite and ostensibly because of its Vertues — “a simple innocent thing.”
What’s amazing about the ad — besides, obviously, its crazy claim that coffee can prevent Mif-carryings in Child-bearing Women — is how flagrantly its copyrighters flung the Vertues they extol. Per these 17th-century Mad Men, coffee could be used to aid and/or prevent: indigestion, headaches, lethargy, drowsiness, arthritis, sore eyes, cough, consumption, “spleen,” dropsy, gout, scurvy, and — my personal favorite — hypochondria.
Read more. [Image: British Museum]
