Word: peet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grubby tables and fetid air once seemed to attract me. During high school summers, friends would flock to the striped umbrellas and concrete chess tables of Au Bon Pain, the invariable meeting place for a night out. I drank numerous oily cups of Peet's Coffee, pretending that I was a tortured poet in a proverbial coffee house. I even developed a taste for their tuna croissant-wiches. I have good memories of ABP; it wasn't until college that it started to make me cringe...
...Beth Peet had never been on a roller coaster. But she had a friend named Julia Grimm. Julia was a little more adventurous than Beth, or perhaps just more curious. Last Memorial Day, reported USA Today, the two high school students traveled from their hometown of Montoursville, Pennsylvania, to Hershey Park, for a Weird Al Yankovic concert; while there, Julia took Beth up on one of the park's wild rides. Last week adventure beckoned again. Both girls had a chance to go on the Montoursville High School French club's excursion to France. Beth, given a choice...
...Peet's Coffee was established in Berkeley, CA in 1966 and since then has developed a loyal following of coffee critics, called "Peetniks," in Northern California...
With an extensive selection of designer coffees, Peet's prides itself "on selecting and roasting the finest coffees available" said Peet's Chief Executive Officer Jerry Baldwin, who also asserts that Peet's "unique style is a good compliment to Au Bon Pain's style...
...Peet's, "coffee roasting is a craft or a discipline rather than a science or art," Baldwin said. "It's a way of life...