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...beans. "People think I'm nuts at first," she says. Then she roasts the beans in a popcorn popper. Says Marks: "Afterward they always admit that they've never had a better cup of coffee." Marks is one of a small but increasing number of coffee drinkers for whom fresh ground isn't fresh enough--so they roast the beans themselves...
...matter how carefully coffee beans are stored, once they are roasted, the aromatic oils and flavors begin dimming within a few days; about 40% of the flavor is lost within two weeks. In an airtight container, green coffee beans stay fresh for more than a year. They also cost about half the price of commercially roasted beans, allowing consumers to stockpile a collection of higher-quality beans. Suzanne Lattanzio, a Hampshire, Ill., real estate agent, has been home-roasting for two years and says she "hates" buying roasted beans. "I like the romance of the different names and being able...
...Posy Simmonds' "Gemma Bovery" (Pantheon, 106 pages, $20), a graphic novel that freely adapts Flaubert's classic "Madam Bovary" by updating the tragic narrative and making its near-namesake heroine quite aware of the parallels between her own "life" and that of "Madame Bovary." The resulting satire offers a fresh approach both to modern mores and to graphic literature...
Harvard has resumed play after an extended layoff fresh and confident, the first time the team has been either after a break in recent years...
Yesterday, Trinity rolled into Cambridge stinging from a 7-2 loss to No. 1 Yale on Jan. 26. Harvard was fresh off an intense intersession training trip, and boasted several strong young players on its roster. But the Crimson, untested, was still perceived as the underdog...