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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...