This man deserves a posthumous snob award!
"That such a method of making Coffee will to a certainty spoil it brown enough and thick enough indeed it may be thus rendered but tasteless mawkish and weak the flavour and spirit all gone and nothing remaining of the real stuff save the shadow which mocks the lip and the palate with unreal seeming a flat flavourless baseless fabric of a vision the very corpse of a cup of good coffee It must be altogether a hoax to tell us that the above is the French method and nobody that has a particle of common sense will ever simmer Coffee for two hours and a quarter"
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=...ource=bookclip
"That such a method of making Coffee will to a certainty spoil it brown enough and thick enough indeed it may be thus rendered but tasteless mawkish and weak the flavour and spirit all gone and nothing remaining of the real stuff save the shadow which mocks the lip and the palate with unreal seeming a flat flavourless baseless fabric of a vision the very corpse of a cup of good coffee It must be altogether a hoax to tell us that the above is the French method and nobody that has a particle of common sense will ever simmer Coffee for two hours and a quarter"
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=...ource=bookclip
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