LOL, Carolyn, another mortgage if only you knew how funny that is ... When can I leave this place and find my own tomato-green-acred-Shangri-La? Far from the legions of armyworms, sun shower daily sprinkling, fungal haze in the air, and 80 ðF, 98% humidity summers all night long...!!! Don't make me look into selling future put options on 100 Heirlooms at the strike price of $1K, please be nice. I will email you. But my book doesn't have that kind of equity yet and I'd much like to put it peacefully next to my Illy's Espresso Coffee, the Science of Quality, my only other perk of the day. (smile) "BTW,at the time I was asked to write that book I'd grown about 1200 varieties,not the1000 you said,and I know how precise you insist on being.It's now over4,000 varieties. " I'm not insisting, would you like me to insist? I think you've confused me with the other dapper gentleperson! IâÂÂm thrilled at the numbers game and IâÂÂm on my way to #20, but still am short of growing 1/200 of what you have done! When I said: After growing over 1000 varieties, each special, and introducing many to home gardeners for the first time! I only plagiarized your bio from the inner flap of 100 Heirlooms's cover, so you may scold Smith & Hawkin's graphic design department for not primly and properly updating that to 1,200 at the time, although to be fair they said âÂÂmore than 1,000âÂÂ: Dr. Male scientifically ~ and lovingly ~ has raised more than a thousand different varieties of heirloom tomatoes in her zone 5 garden in upstate New York. BTW, âÂÂin Upstateâ New York should be capitalized, shouldnâÂÂt it? Or was âÂÂupstate in New Yorkâ what was meant? And, do you think her zone 5 garden should be a capitalized "Zone 5" too? Yes, you need to revise and expand this book. Based on 1,200:100, now you will need to write âÂÂ333 Heirloomsâ to keep up with all those new and deserving cultivars⦠PC, noting that my favorite hot-headed tennis champion of all time, John McEnroe, will be defending his honor at the US Open tonight

I think that Peets and even Dunkin Donuts beans have their fans . . . New England Coffee roasters sells in my local grocery stores. Our Whole Foods uses a local roaster who dates his beans, so in the rare case that I can't get to Shenandoah Joe for my bean fix, I still can get my stuff. If you have a Whole Foods, they may supply beans from a local roaster as well. Where are you? With the current coffee craze, I would imagine that a roaster isn't too far away. I also will say that as a new convert to burr grinders, try one if you haven't already - the difference is absolutely incredible. Teedup, if you love the coffee taste - one taste of real, fresh, well-ground . . . you'll swear off the instant for all but dire caffeine emergencies. If you buy Megabucks by the cup every morning, then paying $19 a pound for good stuff is cheap in the not-very-long run. I've read somewhere that paying $2000 for an espresso machine pays for itself in 2 years over going for your daily fix at megabucks. A pound of coffee lasts us (2 drinkers, 3 cups a day total) about 2 weeks - that's high math, for sure - but still only a little over a dollar a day. And I think my coffee is closer to $13 a pound. Cooterboot, sounds to me like you are in for a fine time tasting various beans! Cheers, and happy drinking'

To make coffee jello you mix your coffee the way you useually mix your coffee and you take plain gelitaine and instead of water you use coffee when it calls for water.I drink my coffee black so I don't use cream but I guess you could try it.What do you have to lose?It is really good .Sometimes I top it with coolwhip.

Les - It's 3 am out here, and whereas you have probably awakened for the day, I've not yet gone to sleep! Which I'm going to do right now. If you like, I'll email you at the addy in your profile, as I'm not sure that this subject is suitable for the forum. There are many places to go on the Net for information. E.g. http://www.hrc.arg/doc/?t=mideast&c=bahrai -- I'm not saying that CC itself, as a company operating in the US, torments women. It fully complies with our laws, and therefore has at least the legally mandated number of WESTERN women in the company, here. However, anyone proclaming adherence to Sharia acquiesces in the prevailing conditions in countries of that religion, and those conditions are intolerable. Arcapita states on CC's website that it fully complies with Sharia in the running of the company, under the FAQ section. Beyond that I don't want to go on this forum, as it's completely off-topic. If this were moved to Conversations, we could. If you don't mind my emailing you, let me know, and I'll do it tomorrow. My brain must now get some sleep. Threegrad - So sorry! This is such an informative thread. I'm afraid that when I saw fair-trade and CC both mentioned here, the irony simply hit me. Nighty-night...