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[lagilman]

I really am becoming addicted to that first cup of coffee in the morning. I'm not sure who I blame more -- agamisu, or that restaurant owner in Florence who refused to let me have tea, and instead served me my first cup of exquisitely-made cappuccino. Or possibly some recent ancestor, who also gave me my taste for fermented goat milk and other reportedly disgusting things. Currently drinking fresh-ground Jamaican Blue Mountain, and feeling decidedly decadent.

The reason for the coffee is that I'm in the middle of another rush line-edit (their failure to plan/make deadline is apparently making my livelihood). The author is award-winning and multiply published. The plot is not impressing me, mainly because part of my brain is going "but that's silly" as I work my way through it. But one reader's silly is another reader's fascinating, so....


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[(Anonymous)]

Eeuuuuuuw to all of you who drink soda/tonic/pop first thing in the morning, unless of course you are hung over, in which case Coke is a life saver.

Call me a traditionalist. I drink STRONG coffee. The 8 cups of water and 10 cups worth of coffee sounds like my recipe.

Please tell me where in Paris you found good tea. I actually switched to coffee because the tea here was sooooo horrid. That an because it was the least expensive thing to order at a café. (Did I mention that I'm CHEAP!) Now, of course, I'm addicted.

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[lagilman]

*makes note to bring good strong tea as well as a bottle of Zinfandfel to Paris*

[girasole.livejournal.com]

We were staying at quite a lovely hotel, Lutetia, in Paris, and each morning I had a Japanese tetsubin pot of Ceylon or Darjeeling. The water was freshly boiled, and the tea was lovely if bagged. I saw no Assam in Paris this trip.

I also had lovely tea -- Mariage Freres -- at Georges in the Pompidou Center. But I had tea every day after lunch, and I only recall one cup that wasn't good.

Normally I am a milk and sugar, strong Assam kind of woman. In Paris, I went with the flow. I also had a cold most of the ten days we were there in May, so the lighter brews worked well for me.

[jperceval.livejournal.com]

You don't need to bring tea with you. Just find a FranPrix or similar grocery store. They'll have tea. My hostess had a lovely jasmine green tea, as well as an herbal after-dinner tea.