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.
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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!
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