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Kelefa Sanneh’s Perfect Cup of Coffee

In this week’s Food Issue, Kelefa Sanneh writes about Aida Batlle, “a fifth-generation coffee farmer and a first-generation coffee celebrity.” Sanneh maintains that “brewing a proper cup of coffee is a lot harder than uncorking a bottle of wine and a lot easier than cooking dinner.” Which leads to a natural question: how does he brew his own cup?

Michael Agger: Give me your coffee method when travelling.

Kelefa Sanneh: When I travel, I pack my hand grinder and some beans and the AeroPress. I have that in my bag right now. You can use a hotel coffee maker as your boiler, even though it doesn’t heat the water quite hot enough. With those tools, you can make a reasonable facsimile of a decent cup of coffee. If you are staying in a B.&B., you can barge into their kitchen and insist on making coffee with your own gear. In my experience, they don’t forbid that, though they don’t necessarily appreciate it.

- Click through to read the full interview, which includes Sanneh’s tips on storing beans, and brewing at work: http://nyr.kr/rW4Hco

(via 52projects)

A haunting adaptation of a 1948 short story by Paul Bowles about a woman who escapes from an asylum, You Are Not I played widely in the international film festival circuit in the early Eighties. Then, a leak in a New Jersey warehouse destroyed the negative, leaving director Sara Driver with only a battered, unprojectable copy. Miraculously, a print was found among the holdings of Paul Bowles just three years ago, and now the film has been restored and is available once again. Undoubtedly one of the most impressive works to emerge from the post-punk downtown scene, the film was beautifully shot by Jim Jarmusch (who also co-wrote the screenplay) and features Suzanne Fletcher, Nan Goldin and Luc Sante.

At the 2011 NYFF

photograph: Matt Black

This photograph grabbed me because it totally evokes Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Páramo.

The photographer, Matt Black is trying to tell the story of the plight of the people of the Mixteca who are disappearing from their villages because the land has been destroyed from industrial farming, erosion, deforestation, and soil exhaustion.

I just backed his Kickstarter campaign. Visit his Kickstarter page and get more of the story.

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