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I just have to break my self-imposed Silence of the LANs to note that Gillies coffee —the oldest continuously operated coffee company in these here United States— has just launched a new web site. [Woot!]Don Schoenholt, Gillies’ proprietor, is a genuine coffeeman… having learned the trade at …

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Too busy, perhaps, getting ready for a site launch I have only now found news that Julia Child has been… er, whisked away.

What an amazing, rewarding, rich and full life she led! She threw herself into her work — foibles and all — and we all eat better for it. …

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The drive home from work last night found me swimming against a traffic tidepool… part of the sea of Phish fans heading for Coventry. While it’s bright, sunny and beautiful in Vermont today, it’s rained most every day this week, so the …

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Busy, busy, busy building the new site that will live at this web address. Meanwhile…Ken Davids has his August reviews online, this time its a barrelfull of beans from Nicaragua. Nic’s on the way up, says Ken…”…a fairly consistent Nicaragua flavor profile has emerged: …

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If only Douglas were still ’round to see his creation finally brought to life on the silver screen.I suppose I could watch it twice: once for me, and once for…

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Researchers at Stanford report that growing coffee in proximity to tropical forests has a measurable, positive impact on crop performance… “Higher rates of pollination by bees that live in the forest led to a 20 percent increase in coffee yields in the two nearest plots. In …

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