Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience, like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting. It is a search for beauty and goodness and improving the quality of our life. As it offers such subjectively ineffable ‘goodness’, devoid of defects, the only adequate reaction to it is astonishment — astonishment that can give birth to enthusiasm, and therefore intellectual and spiritual enrichment.
– Andrea Illy, Espresso Coffee: The Science of Quality, 2nd Ed.


Jacob, there’s enthusiasm for your job. And then there’s….well, there’s that quote.
Comment by Ben Stark — January 25, 2005 @ 4:29 pm
Wow, I better be careful about reading such titillating prose at work. Baristas have all the fun!
Comment by Adam Gintis — February 22, 2005 @ 1:13 pm