tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726680741453160783.post4011993126931370812..comments2024-01-24T02:14:42.210+00:00Comments on Hardy Lane Scrapbook: Coffees of Empirelorenzo23http://www.blogger.com/profile/03703276296616620943noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726680741453160783.post-67858164918536636802012-04-01T23:22:10.542+01:002012-04-01T23:22:10.542+01:00Think my view of coffee is blighted by growing up ...Think my view of coffee is blighted by growing up with Camp coffee or a tin of Nescafe. Then discovering the cafetiers (plunger) and that Italian kitchen essential you use, la molka.<br /><br />In the CWS 1913 Jubilee book, full of facts and figures, more coffee than tea by weight was sold by the Rochdale Pioneers Co-op stores at that time. How did they make it?<br /><br />A whole history we know nothing about. All before the Italian frothy coffee bars of the 1950's and the sugar corporate confections offered by Starbucks.lorenzo23https://www.blogger.com/profile/03703276296616620943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726680741453160783.post-76251524392140125752012-04-01T18:35:01.064+01:002012-04-01T18:35:01.064+01:00Coffee I know it isn't but I guess like many i...Coffee I know it isn't but I guess like many in the 50's I remember it at home, and came across it again when I was catering officer on a building site and one of my chores was to collect the mid morining sandwiches from the Italian cafe by the Royal Standard at Blackheath.<br />Nice piece of social & post Imperial history LawrenceAndrew Simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12215799385557042486noreply@blogger.com