I forget about Amazon’s Plog most of the time. I’m in a little roadside motel not far from family this morning… and while waiting for the rest of the family to wake up, I’m surfing the free wired and wireless Internet from my room (why do the cheapest hotels always have good free access — and the expensive places I stay for business cost me an arm and leg for crap?)

So in a more meandering mood, I followed a few of my Plog links… one of which that lead me to Gastronomica. Now, I have no idea how good the quarterly is, but if this article (warning–only comes as a PDF) is any indication, I going to be a subscriber very soon. Make That a Ristretto by Richard Reynolds has me wishing I was back home in front of my grinder and Chemex rather than dreading the first cup of the 4-cup prepackaged stuff I’ll wolf down in my motel room. Worse, Reynolds paints a beautiful picture of espresso, only to end in complete tragedy. These are provoking words. I applaud them. It’s time to make the coffee.

Happy Saturday.

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