Coffee & Complexity Seeking simplicity & pleasure

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Mmm. Thanks to a quick visit to Sutton town centre today, I had the rare chance to enjoy my favourite of the chain coffee sellers in the UK - Caffé Nero.
I find their Americanos a vast improvement on any of the others.

Your coffee sucks, apparently, and indeed, much of the coffee we consume does suck.
Some years ago, while I was working on a now-defunct magazine for the hotel and restaurant industry (called, prosaically, Hotel & Restaurant) I was treated to a presentation on how to prepare good coffee from a coffee distributor.
That meeting changed my attitude [...]

Today, I forecast three cups of coffee, because I’m a little tired.