Quotations about Coffee
2006-08-06 19:05:12 / Weather: Sunny / Mood: Happy / Personal Category: Entertainment
Coffee is the gold of the common man, and it is like gold that brings luxurious and noble enjoyment to everyone. (Abd-Al- Kadir 1587)
When you are troubled, when you are in this or that kind of trouble - go to a café! (Peter Altenberg 1922)
How cozy and comfortable it is to sit in a comfy reclining chair in a loose robe in the warm sunshine, sipping freshly brewed coffee, and the freedom of green parrots and patterned carpets to dissipate the silence of the old sacraments. ("Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens 1923)
I have measured the happiness of my life with the spoon of coffee. (From F. Alfred Prufrock's "Love Song", T. S. Eliot 1917)
God puts a cup of bitter coffee in front of everyone, and the careless taste the bitterness of despair, while the careful taste the sweetness of hope.
It is true that coffee is bitter. But if you mix in some mate and sugar, and then supplemented by a certain fire, and then attentively modulation, you will be able to adjust the flavor to suit their own. After the coffee is ready, you still have to taste it with your heart. Different occasions, different state of mind, taste out of the flavor is very different. The same is a cup of rich and delicious coffee, a person tastes out of the loneliness and sadness, two people (of course, refers to the opposite sex) tasted out of the warmth and romance. Just as coffee needs a partner, life also needs a partner.
As the saying goes: "Life is not always what it seems. This is the first time I've ever seen a woman in the world who has been in the same situation as me," he said. If the face of the plight of self-hatred, suffering, will only lose their way in the ocean of life, the foot of the road is destined to be like a heavy mountaineering, difficult; put aside the immediate gains and losses, put down the side of the honor and disgrace, and learn to cherish and be grateful to look at the life of that one of the two, optimism, confidence, hard work, and ultimately open-mindedness and perseverance to dissolve and transcend the difficulties. Life is just like a cup of bitter coffee, self-confidence is the companion of coffee, can change the dark color of life; effort is the square sugar of coffee, can bring sweetness and happiness for the bitter life.
I like coffee ---- like its inherent bitter nature, more like it never refused to partner and sugar broad-minded. In the lonely space, a good music, a cup of fragrant coffee, is my greatest happiness. When I am disappointed, I like to mix coffee, companion and sugar together to elaborate, so that the sweet longing to occupy every corner of the heart, so that the weight of the heart of the sky; victory, I prefer the original flavor of the coffee bitter, aimed at remembering the bitter and sweet, so that they are in front of the success of the life of the moment firm course.
So, in 365 days, the lonely mood was dyed in coffee color. In the ebb and flow, blossom and thank you in the cycle, I hold a cup of coffee alone, laugh at the years of frost and rain, savor the bitter, spicy, sweet, any state of mind in the scrupulous realization of the moment of enlightenment, happiness in the clear sky after the rain like flowers bloom ......
In the stage of fate, everyone plays a different role. Sweet life, can certainly save people from trials and tribulations, but it is also easy to make people decadent sinking; suffering life, will certainly make cowards shy away, but make the courageous fighting spirit. Thus, some people in the adversity of the rise, some people in the smooth sinking ......
Life, ah, is a cup of bitter coffee!
The taste of life is like coffee2009-04-12 21:58If you have to choose a bottle of drink from fruit juice, coffee, mineral water which one will you choose? I would not hesitate to choose coffee. Because since I was a child I have a special preference for coffee.
The bitterness of coffee is the process, the mellow flavor is the end. Life is the same, always need to go through a lot of hard work, as if God is so arranged for everyone's fate, not through the storm how to see the rainbow!
While it is said that "the life is really ordinary", but how many people can not go through a lifetime of big storms and waves, and really do the ordinary life? Zhang Haidi, Stephen Hawking, they are the adversity of survival, struggle for development, not afraid of hardship, courageous, they are tasting the sweetness of the coffee, did not give up life, did not give up the pursuit of life, and in their own field to get a place.
The so-called "good medicine tastes bitter", coffee is exactly the same, after tasting a cup of coffee there is always a feeling of enlightenment. A few years ago at the Spring Festival Gala, a shocking dance - Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy, unexpectedly it is a group of deaf and mute girls to show. It is because of their extraordinary experience that they devoted themselves to the dance, and they interpreted the beauty with the purest heart and spiritual dance, so that everyone had to be convinced. With a devout heart, you can realize the true meaning and sweetness of life.
Coffee, like tea, needs to be savored, but not drunk like a big bowl of tea. Gently sip on a mouthful, moist in the mouth, there is a silky lubrication, drops of aroma, not yet finished. Life is like a cup of coffee, coffee first taste, raging, is the bitter taste. Add sugar or not? Depends entirely on your own choice. How much sugar? It is also up to you to decide. But no matter how much sugar is added, coffee is still coffee, and can never become brown sugar water. Just as life is not always as it should be, it can never be as sweet as it should be. When bitterness rolls in, how should we face it? Bravely face the bitterness, and seek sweetness in the bitterness. In a mouth full of bitterness, if there is still a hint of sweetness, it is already enough, really already enough. The sweetness of the aftertaste is not as indifferent as the tea. Can taste the sweetness from the bitter life, his heart has matured, already know how to go meaningfully through life, his life will not be muddled, will not be aimless, will only become colorful, after all, life is so, for those who know how to live.
The strong coffee is a realm, coffee is like life, life does not need to be cumbersome, simplicity is good, but need a different perspective to study, speculation. Can read out the sweetness of life, you read the life, otherwise you can only harvest the bitter fruit.
Coffee wheel
If you are a person who loves coffee, then you must have belonged to your coffee wheel, a circle a road, engraved with the growth of the road bump.
I don't remember what kind of afternoon it was to start obsessing over coffee. From then on, it is in that dense breath all the way. Suddenly found the city, about the coffee culture more and more words, each one describes the coffee wheel of the year. In fact, every person who has a relationship with coffee, have their own unique coffee wheel, every cup of coffee in the hand, are mapped with the shadow of thought. Drink what kind of coffee, go to which cafe to drink, with what kind of mood ...... So, put aside to coffee trace the roots of the pedantry, only to write their own years in the mold of coffee. I think, a number of years later, perhaps some of this content will be with the years together with the accumulation of the coffee culture in the future readers head.
Blue Mountain, do a spiritual aristocrat or
-Blue Mountain coffee: produced in Jamaica, sweet and mellow aroma, slightly acidic, delicate flavor, light taste. Drinking coffee people know that it is the aristocracy of coffee, the most expensive, but also the most rare.
The only time I drank Blue Mountain was in a cafe with a small theater. I remember that it was the season when coffee theater was in full bloom, and my friend from Cornerstone somehow found me and invited me to see a play in the cafe. The play was very special, Ibsen's "When We Dead Wake", performed by a theater club that had only been established for three to five months, and the members of the club were all young people of 18 or 19 years old. The members of the company are all young people of 18 or 19 years of age. The older ones have just started college, and the younger ones are only in their third year of high school. They were guided by a teacher who had once taught their language class. A teacher who taught the students about theater and art in the classroom.
The actors were mostly recruited through posts on the website. I was told that there were a lot of people who came to sign up. The ones on stage were finally chosen. All of them were using their breaks to do this. The lights came on and my Blue Mountain was delivered. In the denseness of the Blue Mountain coffee, with each committed line of dialog, sipping out the sinking clarity.
Grown at an altitude of 3000 feet above the Blue Mountain coffee, due to the production of very little and expensive, in fact, the market is less very can drink the real Blue Mountain coffee, in such a cafe, Blue Mountain, naturally, only the name of the aristocratic gas and conveyed to the fingers of the temperature brought to the imagination.
When all the lights came on, the coffee was cold in the bottom of the cup. The teenagers' faces were wide with smiles. They hugged each other, cheered, and then someone looked at their watch and shook their hand to leave. The book bag was still heavy.
Looking back at the brightly lit cafe, the wooden floor swirled with fine dust, a little mottled, when the lights went down, the whole cafe was as quiet as a theater before a play began, only the stage was not big, ready to explode with something, just in the smell of coffee of all colors, the cafe was not luxurious enough, and not sophisticated enough, but there was pride, a fallen aristocrat? The cafe is not luxurious enough, not refined enough, but still has pride, is a fallen aristocrat? When Jamaica's Blue Mountains can only be recalled in the book, to the world around you to take a leave of absence, with a cup of coffee time, do a spiritual aristocrat is also good.
Starbucks, the sweet-smelling fashion
Starbucks just opened in Shanghai, when my friend pulled me to go. Along the way, he told me that Starbucks is a cafe in the United States dedicated to the middle class, and said that two years ago, he met a director on the board of Starbucks, who said he wanted to introduce Starbucks to Shanghai. Did he realize that dream or not? My friend did not comment, but a cup of cappuccino has been in front of me, the cold fingers close up, and then, like falling into a spell, racking his brain to help Xiaosong think of his animated story. Star Barista really is a great place, and once you sit down inspiration can't help but pop outward. So, in the aroma of the coffee, I was talking freely, and my friend was chewing on his pencil to write down something useful for him.
Since then, my friend has learned to use Starbucks to entice me to come up with ideas for him, and he likes almost every Starbucks cafe, whether it's in an old-fashioned shikumen house or next to one of the finest shopping plazas, with a bit of metallic hardness in the casual décor, and distinctive music that never pays attention to the fact that there's already a pop song playing all over the market. Into the cafe, they asked the counter for coffee, end of a comfortable position, no one to disturb, want to sit and linger when an afternoon can be. At first, this way is very fresh, then someone said, the original coffee can also be made into fast food, like McDonald's and KFC like fast food. Then, Star Barista became synonymous with fashionable coffee, another interpretation of fast food culture.
However, Starbucks is addictive, that aura, that flavor, even, that green. Even without the invitation of a friend, you will run there by yourself, ask for a cup of coffee, pick a floor-to-ceiling window seat, and watch the sunshine jumping outside the glass, or the rain pouring down. During the season of white chocolate mocha, my tongue was like a magic, just find a reason to run to the neighborhood Starbucks and ask for a cup. A trendy Starbucks? I've always claimed that I don't follow fashion, but it's sweet to be fashionable in coffee.
White chocolate mocha season is over, suddenly one day, found the bottom of the cup, but a thick layer of chocolate, and teeth, sweet coffee lingering out of the pain. To the self-service bar on the pour a cup of cold water, slowly drank, the mood all of a sudden light. And then meet people say Star Barista, will not be full of excitement, but for that too sweet coffee hesitation up ......
Afterword--
Away from the Star Barista for a period of time, one day received a phone call from a friend, asked me to go to his new residence.
Grab a handful of coffee beans and grind them with a delicate little grinder, then pour the ground coffee into a coffee marquee sieve a couple times and put it into a special coffee pot to brew. Sitting in the spacious living room of my friend's house, watching him grind the coffee beans, and then cook a room full of flavor, not to drink has been satisfied.