Sunshine, Blue Skies and a Tulip Tree
Woke up to perfect sunshine, blue skies, chirping birds, and the neighbor's tulip tree that has been mesmerizing me since Easter Sunday, as I gaze at it from our deck.
Sunday with Chemex
A marvel of minimalist and effective design, the Chemex coffeemaker has been in my household for about twenty years. There is not much to it, except the closely held belief that cleanliness is paramount if you want a clean, smooth brew to assuage and rejuvenate the far recesses of your palate, and of course, your mind. A glass carafe, a paper filter, some fresh roasted, medium-fine ground coffee, and some clean, filtered water, heated to 195-205 F, and you have some of the cleanest, smoothest coffee that is humanly possible. This manual pour-over technique eliminates all bells and whistles, the same ones that lead to the accumulation of "gunk" (a most scientific term) in office coffee machines that perhaps carry more mold and critters than coffee. Invented by Peter Schlumbohm in 1941, the Chemex is such a significant "back-to-basics" object of the coffee world that it finds itself in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The hourglass-s
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