Cafe Grumpy
224 W 20th St
New York, NY 10011
USA
Dear Caroline and all who help make the perfect cup,
Hola! I write to you from a coffee farm in the cloud forest of Mindo, Ecuador where a woman was handing us samples from her own cupboard's cups. I had the chance today to help roast beans, but I was in rehearsal for the play we've written followed by a hike into the waterfalls, so I missed out. >:( No room to be grumpy! I am inspired and grateful--partly thanks to your help to get me here. I hear the coffee from this farm is not as good as the restauranteur's home grown beans, so I am setting out later to try and buy a pound (for $2.50--is that reasonable?) I also had the chance to grind raw and roasted cacao beans, which we mixed with raw cane sugar to make a great fondue. Pure and natural. And I look forward to enjoying the kind of coffee in the city that is not an excuse to cloud with cream and cram with sugar.
Buzz Buzz Buzz,
Jennifer
best postcard ever!
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