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...Krista Marks is used to the looks of dismay she gets from guests when she offers them a cup of coffee and then pulls out a stash of grayish-green unroasted coffee 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home: Green Coffee Beans? | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

Equipment comes in many variations. You can use a pan or a popcorn popper (free, if you already own one) or get a specialty roaster ($100 to $200). The higher-tech options allow for finer control and produce less smoke. But the lower-tech choices create a sort of DIY pride among enthusiasts and can be tweaked for more control. Home-roasting guru Jim Schulman, who conducts his own coffee-tasting sessions in Chicago, uses a '70s-era popcorn popper that he has modified extensively with a blueprint he got online from some fellow roasters who happened to be engineers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home: Green Coffee Beans? | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

Abrams, 38, credits his taste for serious popcorn, in part, to school days spent sick at home watching The Twilight Zone. "That show was what I aspired to do," says Abrams, who, Spielberg-style, started making his own Super-8 movies at age 8. "It was an allegory--instead of telling stories about communists, it told stories about aliens. I didn't understand a lot of what was going on, but I felt the gravity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to His Unreality | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

...lives of the Kurds, Ghobadi insists he's not a political filmmaker. "I didn't set out to be political, but my land is politicized, and war is part of our daily dialogues and conversations," he says. "I don't make a film so you can bring your popcorn and just enjoy yourself. But I would love the conditions and the colors of my country to change so I can make colorful, joyful films." That shift does not seem imminent. Driven as much by a sense of duty as the desire to create art, Ghobadi hopes to eventually turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children of the Storm | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

...Cost in lira of a night out at the movies with popcorn on Jan. 1, after Turkey eliminated the last six zeroes from its inflated currency (the exchange rate will not be affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/3/2005 | See Source »

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