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...Auburn Street's two coffee house regard each other's establishments with polite airs of reciprocal contempt. Harl Cook of Tulla's commenting on "the place 'down the street," says, "Oh I wouldn't call them competition. They get a different crowd." George Wilson '59, part owner of the Capriccio, suspects Tulla's purchases their coffee from Cahaly...

Author: By Charles S. Mater, | Title: The Coffee Trade | 5/15/1957 | See Source »

Actually, the kitchen procedures have a rough similarity in both coffee houses. Besides an old stove and some silexes, the Capriccio boasts an expresso steam percolator for its Italian coffee. As Wilson watched his brew jet out of this continental loking apparatus, and surveyed his bubbling silexes, he noted that up the street they run everything through...

Author: By Charles S. Mater, | Title: The Coffee Trade | 5/15/1957 | See Source »

...blends themselves, in both Tulla's and the Capriccio the many varities come from five or six staples. Tulla explains that she uses Colombia, Brazilian, Javanese, Luziane, and a "secret" blend of Cuban coffee. Most she orders from New York wholesalers, but the Luziane is shipped from New Orleans. To hurry it along, Tulla occassionally resorts to urgent dispatches like the card she sent last week: "Help, help! We ordered six pounds of Luzaine several weeks ago. Wha hoppened...

Author: By Charles S. Mater, | Title: The Coffee Trade | 5/15/1957 | See Source »

...took the wrong subway, and found himself in Harvard Square. A week unshaven, with uncut hair, wearing combat boots, olive drab pants, a khaki shirt and a combat jacket, he was stumbling around Arrow Street when two Radcliffe would-be bohemians found him and brought him to the Capriccio because they thought he must be an avant-garde poet...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Creeping Continentalism: In Search of the Exotic | 4/27/1957 | See Source »

...would-be adventurers in the Care Capriccio should get a big bang out of "A Far Place." It is by an ex-MacLeish student, who spent two years in Accra, Dakar, and Abidjan working for Texaco, and has also played factory hand, circus roustabout, department store salesman, U.P. Staff correspondent, and Associate Editor of the Paris Review. He also spent a year writing "A Far Place," in Paris, before becoming a Barnard English teacher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blair Fuller: 'A Far Place' | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

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