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Joseph Scipeck, who identified himself as the driver of the van, said he didn't know the cause of the fire, which he said started around 9:10 a.m. while he was parking outside Peet's Coffee...
...hired to do marketing. Two years later, a trip to Milan led to more inspiration. He returned to Seattle convinced that Starbucks should start opening espresso bars and bring café culture to America. The founders of Starbucks, who had been trained by the legendary coffee retailer Alfred Peet, weren't so sure about expansion--wouldn't that obliterate the intimacy they'd established? So Schultz left to start another company, Il Giornale, but he returned in 1987 with $3.8 million that he'd raised to buy Starbucks and turn it into the company he envisioned...
Remember when everyone bought coffee in a can? We don't either, which is a tribute to the influence of coffee guru Alfred Peet. Opening his Berkeley, Calif., coffeehouse in 1966 and insisting on dark-roasting a variety of strong beans, the Dutch-born son of a coffee merchant single-handedly started the U.S. gourmet-coffee revolution. Peet, whose original café still thrives in Berkeley's "Gourmet Ghetto," went on to train the founders of Starbucks, for whom he initially supplied coffee beans. Thus he is known as the "grandfather of specialty coffee." Peet...
Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear. - Mother Teresa to the Rev. Michael Van Der Peet, September...
...less than three months earlier, in a letter to a spiritual confidant, the Rev. Michael van der Peet, that is only now being made public, she wrote with weary familiarity of a different Christ, an absent one. "Jesus has a very special love for you," she assured Van der Peet. "[But] as for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, - Listen and do not hear - the tongue moves [in prayer] but does not speak ... I want you to pray for me - that I let Him have [a] free hand...