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16B Extracurriculars Events on and off campus through March and April
16D “Gorey’s Worlds” What amused and inspired artist Edward Gorey?
16F “Little Poland” and American art A trip to New Britain, Connecticut
16H Catching Fire Harvard ties to roller derby
16N Broadsheet Coffee Roasters An antidote to Starbucksification? 16M The Cambridge Science Festival Learning made fun for any age JANE MESSINGER
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THEATER Extracurriculars Harvard-Radcliffe Events on and off campus during March and April Gilbert and Sullivan Players www.boxoffice.harvard.edu SEASONAL ter, along with art exhibits and hands-on The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Mer- Arts First Festival activities for all ages. The 2018 Harvard Arts ryman and His Maid. A young woman and CAMBRIDGE, MA CAMBRIDGE, MA www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu Medalist is novelist Colson Whitehead ’91 her father scheme to save her love interest $2,000,000 $2,000,000 The annual arts celebration in and around (profiled in the September-October 2016 by pretending he’s her brother—but things Harvard Square offers live performances of issue), author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning go awry. Agassiz Theater. (March 23-April 1) dance, music, comedy, circus acts, and thea The Underground Railroad. (April 26-29) From left: Flutist Claire Chase performs at Holden Chapel; sacred Ukrainian embroidered American Repertory Theater textiles at the Museum of Russian Icons; and WarGames, with a young Matthew Broderick, www.americanrepertorytheater.org part of the “Caught in the Net” series at the Harvard Film Archive Enjoy dance-hall, roots, and reggae-rocking FROM HARVARD LEFT: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC; MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ICONS; HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE
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180329_Coldwell-GailRoberts.indd 1 1/26/18 12:08 PM Harvard Squared Harvard Squared Caribbean rhythms with Lady Lee & The practice of music, performs seven world- Harvard Glee Club New Awakening Band and guest artists premiere compositions, joined by guest vo www.boxoffice.harvard.edu Mashy Word Compressor and Boston rap calists. Holden Chapel. (March 29) The Harvard Glee Club and Ashmont Boy star Scape Scrilla. Oberon. (March 30) Choir sing the Davison Mass, by Memorial Church WCRB Classical Cartoon Festival resident composer Carson Cooman. (April 6) MUSIC www.wgbh.org Harvard Department of Music Animated stories on a giant screen accompa Holden Choruses www.music.fas.harvard.edu nied by live music. Boston Symphony Hall. www.boxoffice.harvard.edu Flutist Claire Chase, professor of the (March 24) The Holden Choruses and Harvard-Rad- cliffe Orchestra perform Mahler’s Resurrec- tion Symphony. Sanders Theatre. (April 20)
STAFF PICK: Skeletons, Skylines, and Weeds LECTURES The Peabody Museum of Your Real Estate Experts “Gorey’s Worlds,” at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, explores what Archaeology & Ethnology inspired Edward Gorey ’50, mostly through works he bequeathed to the Hartford www.peabody.harvard.edu Carol Kelly Rachel Miller museum. They range from nineteenth-century folk art to photographs and drawings Smithsonian Institution curator of globaliza Shannah Hall by Eugène Atget and Edvard Munch and an oil painting, Dandelions in a Blue Tin (1982), tion Joshua A. Bell delves into the interna Zarya Miranda by the brilliant and reclusive landscape artist Albert York. Gorey was “ahead of his tional network behind the production, re time” in appreciating York’s pair, and disposal of mobile devices in Atlifecare Brookhaven living is as good as it looks. 4 spring listings coming work, and acquired eight of Unseen Connections: A Natural His- them in the 1980s, says Erin tory of Cell Phones. (April 18) Brookhaven at Lexington offers an abundance of opportunities for Contact us to learn more Monroe, Wadsworth’s as intellectual growth, artistic expression and personal wellness. Our residents sociate curator of American The Radcliffe Institute for share your commitment to live a vibrant lifestyle in a lovely community. The Carol Kelly Team painting and sculpture. She Advanced Study Call today to set up an appointment for a tour! thecarolkellyteam.com believes Gorey was drawn www.radcliffe.harvard.edu 617.835.5008 A Full-Service Lifecare Retirement Community [email protected] to something “subtly sub The Alzheimer Enigma: The Causes of www.brookhavenatlexington.org versive” in York’s “ordinary” the Dementia Epidemic features Albert (781) 863-9660 • (800) 283-1114 subjects, and to the humor in the carefully arranged weeds. Hofman, Kay Family professor of public Images of skeletons, alleyways, animals, skylines, dancing figures, and gravestones health and clinical epidemiology at the Har also appear in the show, as they do, one way or another, in Gorey’s own legendarily vard Chan School of Public Health. (April 23) macabre and dry-witted works. Dozens of borrowed objects—his own art, fur coats, Step Outside with and handsome jewelry, along with 1970s portraits by culture photographer Harry EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS Teaching the World® Benson—flesh out a singular creative spirit. Museum of Russian Icons Outward Bound Professional! Teaching the World® Gorey died in 2000, leaving no explanations of his attachment to the bequeathed www.museumofrussianicons.org items. But Monroe’s research suggests connections: parallels between Church and Grave- Rushnyky: Sacred Ukrainian Textiles yard (c. 1850), a folk-art sketch by an unknown artist, and Gorey’s Haunted America offers beautifully embroidered cloths used “The Outward Bound experience has been a powerful way (below), a 1990 watercolored pen-and-ink design for a book on supernatural short in life-cycle ceremonies and sacred rituals. to set the tone for the year. As a direct result I am seeing a stories; or between many Gorey-esque objects and those in Atget’s Naturaliste, rue de l’Êcole de Médecine (1926-27; printed by Berenice Abbott). On view, too, is a print of a Fuller Craft Museum higher level of gratitude, teaming, and active leadership.” 1952 illustration Gorey made for the Poets’ Theatre, a Cambridge group that included www.fullercraft.org Frank O’Hara ’50 (Gorey’s College roommate), and of which Gorey was the resident Mindful: Exploring Mental Health - Barbara Best, Director of Student and Fellows Program, artist. “It was about as counterculture as you could get in the early 1950s,” says Monroe. Through Art highlights the powers of Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership The flyer reflects the link “between text and image, and a unique typography and creativity and expressiveness through theatricality, that are the foundation” of his artistic career, she notes. Acrobats, gloved sculptures, drawings, and other works.
women in gowns, and mustached gentlemen are depicted as “languid bodies, graceful, 1952/ OFFSET LITHOGRAPHY IN./©THE ON PAPER, X 14 5 1/2 EDWARD GOREY CHARITABLE TRUST (Through April 22) WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM AMERICAN OF ART, PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS PURCHASE FUND, 2015.4.1. and unusually boneless,” resem Open House bling his later drawings. His own FILM Now Enrolling EDWARD GOREY/ ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE POETS’ THEATRE PERFORMANCE IN FOGG MUSEUM COURT, MAY, for 2018-2019 “presentation—fur coats, high-top Harvard Film Archive SATURDAY,Open JANUARYHouse 21, sneakers—which seems sort of www.hcl.harvard.edu/hfa From Preschool9am-12pm through pre-hipster now, was strange on Caught in the Net: The Internet in the Grade 12, ISB students learn to campus then, and even when he Paranoid Imagination surveys films from Preschool and Kindergarten speak and9a thinkm-12pm in French and moved to New York City,” she the 1980s to the present, including eXistenZ, PreschoolArlingtonEnglish, Campus: anddevelop Kindergarten 17 Irving critical Street adds. “At six-foot-four, he didn’t Personal Shopper, Pulse, Ghost in the Shell, and thinking skills and thrive in a necessarily blend in. I think he was Southland Tales. (March 9-18) Arlington Campus: 17 Irving Street Tomulticultural learn more, call environment. 617.499.1459 OK with everything that was THOMPSON ISLAND (617) 830-5114 or visit www.isbos.org strange and unexpected.” vn.p.b. Events listings are also found at www. OUTWARD BOUND [email protected] To learn more, call 617.499.1459 EDUCATION CENTER ISB is accredited by NEASC (New England Association of Schools and harvardmagazine.com/harvard2-events. www.thompsonisland.org Colleges), CIS (Council of International Schools), MEN (French Ministry Boston Harbor Islands ofor Education) visit and www.isbos.org IB (International Baccalaureate).
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Hidden Treasures New Britain’s “Little Poland” and museum of American art by nell porter brown
n a recent visit to Broad Street, on the front steps. To- the heart of New Britain’s “Lit- day, there’s a school bus tle Poland,” not a word of Eng- stop, and I put in a wel- O lish was heard. come bench for parents Customers lining up for kielbasa at Krakus waiting for their kids.” Meat Market, picking out blintzes and cuki- New Britain is about erki czekoladowe (chocolate candies) at Polmart 15 miles southeast of down the street, and crowding into Kasia’s Hartford. It was a Colo- Bakery for babka and puffy donuts calledpac - nial-era settlement, but zki all spoke Polish. rose to prominence as “And it’s not just markets and restaurants, a manufacturing cen- it’s bank tellers, accountants, and doctors, art ter, dubbed the “Hard- galleries. This is becoming the cultural Polish ware City,” when com- center for all of New England,” says bilingual panies like P&F Corbin April’s Little Poland Festival; an elegant vista in Walnut
attorney Adrian Baron, president of the Po- Company and Stanley THE SHADOW MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER 1933, THE ROBERT LESSER Hill Park; the New Britain AMÉRICA, COURTESY 2016 OF THE NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART; lonia Business Association, formed a decade Works (now Stanley Museum of American ago to help focus revitalization efforts begun Black & Decker, still Art—and images from two Poles began arriving in the in the late 1990s. “This area was littered with headquartered there) current exhibits, on Ameri- late 1800s and joined other immi- pawn shops, a strip club, and empty store- were founded in the can Sign Language and grants—Irish, German, and Ital- pulp-art paintings fronts,” he says. Even when he relocated his mid nineteenth centu- ian—working in the booming fac- law office, Podorowsky, Thompson & Bar- ry. These enterprises anchored the cultural tories. The fast-growing Polish community on, from Hartford to Broad Street in 2006, and community attractions that are thriv- was soon buttressed by the neo-Gothic Sa- “There was a heroin dealer doing business ing there today. cred Heart Church, built in 1897, which looms CLOCKWISE FROM COURTESY TOP LEFT: OF THE LITTLE POLAND FESTIVAL, NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT; WIKICOMMONS;ALAMY STOCK PHOTOS; FRANCISCA BENÍTEZ, GEORGE ROZEN, “THE GROVE OF DOOM,” FROM COLLECTION OF PULP 2009.22.51LIC, ART, COURTESY OF THE NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
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180311_LuxBondGreen.indd 1 1/22/18 3:17 PM Harvard Squared large on the Broad Street hill and still holds embarked from ships in New York City, says committee, and founder of the American services in Polish. Another wave of Poles ar- Min Jung Kim, director and CEO of the New Hosiery Company, donated $20,000 in gold rived after World War II, then a third influx Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA). bonds for an art-acquisition fund. This trans- associated with Polish independence in 1989. The museum traces its roots to the New Brit- formative gift was part “of a civic and cultural ain Institute, founded in 1853 to foster learn- consciousness that began to develop in the Immigrants were once so crucial to New ing and cultural awareness among the new first part of the nineteenth century in pros- WE ARE | connected worldwide Britain commerce that company represen- arrivals. In 1903, John Butler Talcott, a for- perous cities in the Northeast and gradually tatives sought to recruit them as they dis- mer mayor, chair of the Institute’s building spread throughout the country,” Kim wrote S S C
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180330_Gibson-Sothebys.indd 1 2/5/18 12:50 PM Harvard Squared Harvard Squared walks, public events, and simply relaxing. including a collaborative project with chil- which featured more than 150 works cre- demographic shifts, In 2009, the Friends of Walnut Hill Park dren at the American School for the Deaf, in ated between 1638 and 1887, together with and the blight that Rose Garden organized to re-create and West Hartford, the birthplace of American English and Spanish exhibit texts, reached still plagues some maintain that garden (originally added Sign Language. The museum also holds up- out to a Hispanic community encompassing sections. in 1929) by moving it to the courtyard by ward of 200 original oil paintings created for nearly 44 percent of city residents. “Ghana the World War I memorial and planting inexpensive pulp-fiction publications such Paints Hollywood” (through February 19) Yet in an age when more than 800 bushes, representing 75 as The Shadow and Doc Savage, hugely popular presents hand-painted African movie post- many ethnic neigh- varieties, as a purposeful symbol of the from the Great Depression through World ers for U.S. films from the mid 1980s through borhoods that co-
city’s diverse population. War II. The sensational graphics often depict the early 1990s that represent a Golden Age of alesced around that (2) MAGAZINE/NPB HARVARD The NBMAA was the nation’s first in- archetypal characters—barely clad “damsels pre-commercial, “imagination-driven” adver- long-ago heyday are gone, Little Poland, Krakus Meat Market offers all kinds of stitution dedicated solely to American in distress,” “heroic” tough guys—engaged tisements by individual artists. Such shows designated in 2008, is thriving. sausages, along with homemade blintzes, stuffed cabbage, poppy-seed art, Kim says; its permanent holdings in adventures, mysteries, and science-fic- purposely “flip the gaze,” Kim says, because And it’s serving as an inspiration else- bread, and other Polish delights.
LITTLE POLAND FESTIVAL, NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT stand at more than 8,300 works, includ- tion narratives that influenced a collective the focus “is not always about our declaration where. The New Britain Latino Coalition Children in traditional dress perform at ing pieces by the Connecticut-raised Sol understanding of American values and suc- of what American art is, but about opening is developing the “Barrio Latino” (renamed be desegregated) will be dedicated in a new the Little Poland Festival. LeWitt. It also owns prime examples of Co- cess stories. ourselves up to other global representations a few years ago) around Arch Street, which city park, Rodriguez says. in “American Art in the 21st Century: Build- lonial portraiture, the Hudson River School, Kim wants the museum to reflect the “rich of us—and that only contributes to a more holds a cluster of Latin-American organiza- “New Britain is a melting pot of cultures,” ing Bridges, Not Walls,” for Art New England and works by Winslow Homer, Mary Cas- and varied” aspects of American culture and informed consciousness about what Amer- tions and businesses, including the Criolli- he continues, “we have Polish and Central (May-June 2017). “In short, the NBMAA was satt, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, and experiences, and on mounting shows that ican art is and how America is perceived.” simo Restaurant and the Borinquen Bakery. and South Americans, and Laotians and Viet- uniquely positioned to reflect the new, unify- Thomas Hart Benton. speak to local and regional residents. With In May, the museum’s gaze returns to New “We’re in the infant stage,” says coalition namese and Yemeni. You name it, we got it. ing, and ‘American’ visual rhetoric.” In 2015, an addition greatly expanded gal- a Polish community constituting about 20 Britain’s industrial legacy with “New/Now: chairman Carmelo Rodriguez, “working We have seen the fruits of their hard work Local leaders also commissioned the ad- lery and classroom space. The museum con- percent of New Britain’s nearly 73,000 res- Paul Baylock.” His works integrate iconic fac- on getting more businesses to the area, and in Little Poland, and it’s awesome. We are all jacent Walnut Hill Park in 1870, now on the tinues to serve as a vibrant community re- idents, the museum has hosted events and tory and hardware motifs reflecting his own with landlords to fix up their buildings.” The proud of each other here. It’s not about com- National Register of Historic Places. It was source, offering lectures, concerts, and classes exhibits over the years exploring Polish and experiences growing up in the city, where city already hosts annual Latino and Puerto petitions.” Many city residents and officials designed by the office of Hartford-born land- for all ages. “NEW/NOW: Francisca Benítez” Polish-American arts and heritage, she ex- he was part of an Irish-Lithuanian family Rican Festivals; this spring, following a six- are also increasingly joining forces to clean scape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, A.M. (through April 29) highlights video and pho- plains. Last year’s “Vistas del Sur: Traveler of 10, and taught art in the public schools year effort, the new Borinqueneers Monu- up and revitalize other areas—and the Polo- 1864, LL.D. ’93, as a respite for residents— tographic works exploring the power and Artists’ Landscapes of Latin America from for decades. He also witnessed the postin- ment (honoring the 65th Infantry Regiment nia Business Association wants to help. “We and is still a picturesque place for exercising, diversity of sign languages and deaf culture, the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection,” dustrial decades of economic challenges, from Puerto Rico, the last U.S. Army unit to try to be inclusive and support each other,”
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16J March - April 2018 Harvard Magazine 16K Harvard Squared Harvard Squared Adrian Baron says, “because helping the city helps all of us.” ALL IN A DAY: ASSISTED LIVING RETIREMENT COMMUNITY ASSISTED LIVING RETIREMENT COMMUNITY Still, these projects take time. Lucian IndependentHere’s what and people Assisted are Living •Here’s Specialized what Memory people Careare Pawlak, who settled in New Britain with Cambridge Science Festival What do Harvard alumni have in common? his emigré parents in 1956, is credited with saying about us. saying about us. spearheading renovation and eradicating The twelfth annual Cambridge Science Festival offers more Cadbury Commons gang activity in Little Poland when he was than 200 events, promising something for all ages—“Science mayor, from 1995 to 2003; the recently re- Carnival and Robot Zoo,” “Astronomy on Tap,” “You’re the A Remarkable Senior Residence furbished sidewalks and new street lamps Expert”—in locations across Greater Boston. Founded by MIT were improvements he began pushing for in Museum director John Durant, the 10-day event was the “first 1999. He and Baron agree the still emerging of its kind in the United States,” says festival manager MaryCat transformation has hinged, in large part, on Chaikin: “You get to engage in hands-on, creative activities di a loyal base of second- and third-generation rectly with scientists” working in a world-class research hub. food markets. At “Be A Medicine Hunter,” Options: Robots at the MIT Museum, Name: Milton R. Polish Americans (and recent immigrants) Also unique is the fair’s breadth, from math challenges, lab ex the Novartis open house, visitors can talk Name: Milton R. and viewings Occupation: Postal Supervisor, Retired Occupation: Postal Supervisor, Retired who patronize the professional businesses, periments, citizen-driven data drives, and philosophical debates to with researchers; meanwhile, the City of through a solar Hobbies: Reading, Walking, Exercising Hobbies: Reading, Walking, Exercising markets, and restaurants—like Belvedere COURTESY OF THE CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE FESTIVAL(2) activities that underscore the essential roles of math and science Cambridge offers “How Cambridge telescope at the Lifestyle: Independent, Active Lifestyle: Independent, Active Choice of Senior/Assisted Living: Choice of Senior/Assisted Living: Café, Staropolska, and Polonia Taste—even in food, the arts, business, education, Works—Science at City Hall.” Harvard Museum of Science Cadbury Commons Cadbury Commons after they move to nearby communities. “The human development—and even com events range from “Cambridge Explores the “There is a stable and gentle atmosphere “There is a stable and gentle atmosphere place is a way for many Polish-Americans to edy. “You’re the Expert” is a hilarious Universe,” at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, of help and empathy throughout the of help and empathy throughout the reconnect with their heritage,” Baron says. attempt by comedians to guess scien to “The Invisible Chef”—ferreting out microbes in food with the community. I feel assured that I am part of community. I feel assured that I am part of others’ lives, as they are of mine. For myself, others’ lives, as they are of mine. For myself, “They’re in language classes, buying books tists’ areas of research through a 20 Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative. I feel thatThe Cadbury Harvard Commons alumni provides who a choseI feel Cadbury that Cadbury Commons Commons provides a and music, and sampling the food.” But the Questions-style game. The Boston Most activities are free, accessible by public transportation, and well trained and caring group of people who well trained and caring group of people who reversal also reflects the locals’ initiative, he Public Market hosts a daylong focus on open to families. But it’s adults-only at “Astronomy on Tap,” where are interestedmay in my have welfare.” retired from work,are interested but not in my from welfare.” life. adds: “We don’t wait for things to happen. 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16L March - April 2018 Harvard Magazine 16M TASTES & TABLES Harvard Squared grinders and their espresso-makers are noto- riously crappy,” he adds. “And we use a steam wand, which forces hot steam into the milk, 2 UNITS EXCLUSIVELY OFFERED BY creating micro-foam [versus the frothers at Starbucks], and milk from a local farmer, too.” MacDougall spent 17 years in banking, ul- timately as a managing director in the global Broadsheet Coffee Roasters markets division of Deutsche Bank in To- CURRIER kyo. In starting Broadsheet, he considered the paths of some peers. “I know a lot of An antidote to Starbucksification? people in their forties and fifties who were by nell porter brown in the finance industry and are now doing nothing, or going through the motions, do- 13 RICHDALE AVENUE, SOMERVILLE ing more of the same—really bright, really Chic modern interiors • Open floor plans capable—and they’re managing their port- folios all day, watching Netflix, and trying not to pay taxes,” he says. “I just had a nega- tive reaction to the money making money.” Instead, he sees his café (which also sells $875K $835K excellent, house-made baked goods, along 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms with breakfast and lunch fare) as a means of “doing something fun that I love, and build- ing something: employing people, creating community.” He enjoys applying his banking acumen to the specialty coffee industry (un- derstanding relative value, and global and commodities markets, for starters), as well as to running a small business. But his infatuation with java began only after he’d left finance—and moved with his wife and their young son (then suffering from myriad allergies) to Hawaii. It was a purely sensuous pursuit: “In Hawaii I could go into the mountains and pick coffee with friends and bring it home and roast it my- self,” he says. Analytical and detail-orient- ed by nature, he soon found a local coffee- iguring that “day-trading my stock been trained to roasting mentor and began experimenting, portfolio was not the best use of my just dump in the testing various beans and temperatures, time,” former banker Aaron MacDou- cream and sugar and not even taste the cof- Clockwise from far left: Broadsheet is an learning the art and science of extracting gall ’94 chose instead to open Broad- fee.” He’s trying to communicate the “value open, light-filled space for working or and honing flavor. “My wife told me, ‘This F socializing; the view from Kirkland Street; sheet Coffee Roasters, a specialty coffee proposition” of fine coffee: to help consumers baristas and servers customize coffee is so much better than any other middle- house in Cambridge that aims to educate think differently and not waste their “caf- orders; Broadsheet owner and coffee aged-guy hobby.’” as it caffeinates. feine capacity on something that’s inferior.” connoisseur Aaron MacDougall Five years ago, the family moved to the MacDougall “curates” the raw green A 12-ounce brewed cup costs from $3.25 about 50 cents more per cup. Like fine mainland United States and settled in beans—mostly from growers in Ethiopia, (plain) to $5.00 (vanilla latte, mocha); a wines, he points out, specialty coffees have Brookline, closer to MacDougall’s parents, Peru, and Guatemala—and convection- 12-ounce bag of roasted beans is $18 to $22. distinctive nuances. Describing two variet- and he sought out the local specialty coffee roasts them in the gleaming and efficient When asked about what some patrons see ies from Ethiopia, which holds near-myth- subculture, attending seminars and trainings Loring S-15 that sits behind a rope like a as steep pricing, MacDougall counters: “But ic status among serious coffee-drinkers as at the Somerville outpost of Counter Culture museum piece in the Kirkland Street café. I always think, ‘Why is it so cheap?’” the origin of the indigenous arabica coffee Coffee company. In 2015, he sat through a [email protected] It perfectly browns coffee that’s sold in bags Consider the labor-intensive process of shrubs, he says, “The best-selling Qonqona six-day exam period to become a certified (617) 593-3120 or brewed for customers (using water thrice bringing coffee to the market, he explains: brew tastes of rich, dark cherries,” whereas Q-grader (“Like a master sommelier, but for filtered and re-mineralized in the basement) the cultivation, hand-picking, sorting, and “the classic Yirgacheffe Kochere is a lighter coffee,” he says; “there are only maybe 300 to MaggieCurrier.com by discerning baristas. “What we’re really cleaning that mostly occur in high-altitude, roast with “a strong bergamot, herbal note.” 350 of them in the United States”), entitled fighting here is the fast-food mentality of the rural areas that are hard to reach; then add Broadsheet also customizes grinding, to officially evaluate the quality of coffees. United States,” says MacDougall. “Across transportation costs. His raw coffee is a brewing, and roasting. “Starbucks uses su- Here’s his quick lesson on grading: green the country, coffee equals ‘caffeine-delivery “dramatically” higher grade than any Star- per-automatic machines; they just press a arabica coffee is scored on a 100-point scale; mechanism’ for the working person. We’ve bucks offering, and costs customers only button and out it comes. They have built-in anything below 80 points is priced off of
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