coffee maker

pinnacle of quality in coffee making gear. it's about a hundred dollars in equipment and supplies - the coffee is in the brown bag, locally roasted organic fair trade beans, dark roast, purchased in bulk at the corner store and farmer's market, and we brought our own paper sack ... so, no plastic - and, other than the kettle handle, there's no plastic of any kind involved.

there are actually vitamins created by this kind of equipment, very complex ones, very subtle ones, that you won't get from more mundane foods (except in special cases), or from (as a rule) anything that has been touched by plastic. there's an actual meaning to the materials - wood, steel, brass, paper, clay - and to their age, their ability to age. i've used this set, daily, for twenty years - same set, no changes.



it's not that plastic in your cooking will kill you, or that you can't live without this kind of vitamins, or that this kind of obsession isn't a little silly, but there is evidence this approach, really working at a kind of pure process, does create a surprising state of immunity ... life just flows by ... it's not easy ... but it just sort of flows by ...