Coffee of Yesteryear

Pursuing Quality at the Supermarket
by Kenneth Davids

Suppose a coffee drinker knows that most coffee cans now lined up on North American supermarket shelves are rotten with poor quality coffees of the bland-at-best robusta species. And suppose that coffee drinker wants to move up to something better without excessive fuss or expense. In other words, simply add something handy and reasonably priced to the grocery cart. Are whole-bean coffees sold in Lucite bins or foil bags worth their additional cost plus the effort it takes to grind them? And if they are worth the added cost and trouble, which bags or bins are likely to repay us most for our dollars and gropings around the coffee grinder? Coffee Review will take on this question through a series of reviews that survey coffees available in the larger stores and specialty chains of metropolitan areas around North America. We start with New York City, and will follow in the coming months with similar surveys focusing on other urban centers.
Hot air roasted coffee, i.e. Sivetz Coffee Roasters are still superior to drum roasters.

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