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How
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Drink Coffee
with Jeff Dreyfuss
Tuesday,
December 8
5:30-8:30pm
19 South Wabash
(second-floor lounge)
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$40 inclusive covers the cost of two cigars, premium open bar,
and sandwiches.
Reservations are required.
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Jeff Dreyfuss, co-owner of Metropolis
Coffee Company, will lead a conversation about coffee: its
history, where it comes from, what its varieties are, and
how to taste it. He will also bring along a few
varieties for sampling. Coffee
contains over 800 discernible flavor compounds, compared to
400 or so for wine. We'll start with the basics of
aroma, fragrance, body, richness, mellowness, and acidity,
then graduate to the intermediate categories of brightness,
dryness, and fragrance, then finally consider advanced
flavor characteristics such as cocoa, honey, lavender,
jasmine, orange, shortbread, olive oil, sage, walnut, pecan,
cherry, and of course, tobacco.
Jeff
Dreyfuss got his PhD in linguistics from the University
of Michigan after spending a Fullbright in Java studying
storytelling and grammar. He taught Indonesian
languages at UW-Madison and at the University of Washington
and has published many scholarly articles on language and
culture. While in Madison, he and his wife, also a
professional linguist, founded the Wisconsin English as a
Second Language Institute (WESLI), which grew to be the
largest single-site private ESL school in the country.
His hobbies include Spanish, Portuguese, German, Japanese,
Indonesian, Javanese, Russian, Amharic (some), French
Creole, limited Italian and French, classical flute, and
squash.
Metropolis
Coffee has gotten
much good press since Jeff and his son founded the company
in Edgewater in 2003. Among other notices:
Micro-roaster of the Year, 2007, Roast Magazine; One
of America's Top 15 Coffee Houses, Food and Wine Magazine,
2006; Best Cup of Coffee in Chicago, Chicago Tribune,
2007; Best Latte, Chicago Magazine, 2005, 2007; Best
Place to Buy Coffee Beans, New City Magazine, 2005. |
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Coming up =
Tuesday,
January 12
A Cigar Society Fumada Informal hosted by Augustus
Higginson at his apartment and studio.
In Lake View.
Tuesday, January 26
Rick Kogan and Charles Osgood will talk about their new
book, Sidewalks II: Reflections on Chicago.
19 South Wabash
Tuesday, February 9
Emanuel Mayer, Ass't Professor of Classics at the University
of Chicago, will talk about kitsch in ancient Roman art, the
rise of the middle class, and the history of the garden gnome.
19 South Wabash
Tuesday, February 23
Sam Sisodia, Thomas Reynolds Sr. Family Professor of
Neurosciences and Director of the Center for Molecular
Neurobiology at the University of Chicago, will talk about his
research on the causes of Alzheimer's Disease.
19 South Wabash.
Tuesday, March 16
Speaker to be Announced.
Tuesday, March 30
Speaker to be Announced.
Tuesday, April 13
Speaker to be Announced.
Tuesday, April 27
Speaker to be Announced.
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