Wild Week of Roasting - Tuesday, July 1st

No, the roaster didn’t catch on fire. The exact opposite actually. And by roaster, I mean me, not the machine. I got drenched twice on the bike while delivering coffee, and we all got slammed at the farmers market on Saturday during a huge downpour. Sweaty, hot, and humid! But I’ve got to give it up to the hardcore Ann Arborites who are just that dedicated to buying local… the rain didn’t stop the sales or the excellent vibe. The market is a true microcosm of this town… a really great group of people selling to an even greater community.

Speaking of great people at the market, come on down and pick yourself up some of Grandma’s killer baked goods! My own Grandma passed in 1997 at the age of 93. We were very close and used to correspond by mail… I miss her. For whatever reason, if your own Granny isn’t able to serve up the cookies and milk, you’ve got a Grandma at the market every Wednesday and Saturday. Rain or shine, hot or cold, she’s there with homemade cookies, pies, and eggs. Check her out.

The latest development at Roosroast is the all new: "Starbucks De-programming Center" available on request at the market during slow times. (Please be ready to step aside when someone actually needs coffee with a quickness.) This re-programming/de-programming is based on a teaching technique developed back in the early 1990’s during my stint as a snowboard instructor in Breck and Vail, Colorado. (Summers were spent in the Columbia Gorge windsurfing and running my burrito truck, The Killer Take out Stand. Rough life, eh?) We often had to de-program people who had wild misconceptions about boarding, and used a combination of crude yoga moves, ecstatic dance, and two Jungle Brothers tunes to release our students from the inner boundaries of their office cubicle-filled minds. By the end of their all day lesson they were usually rocking down the entire mountain.

I realized the need for the Starbuck's De-programming Center today when someone at the market and ordered a “whole milk, extra hot, vanilla latte with 5 pumps and whipped cream.” I actually reached for the porta-filter and started making their drink, then realized I didn’t have an espresso machine, or any such mechanism to pump 5 times, nor whipped cream! Though I’m not going to be putting anyone in a yoga pose anytime soon, we can certainly talk about your coffee habit while I get you some simple but beautiful fresh roast.

Looking forward to more fresh veggies and all the fresh writing going on in the blog-o-sphere. Check out all the foodies by searching roos roast on the web.(for some reason the web address I tried to write a link to for Dianna Dyer didn't work?)

Posted by John at 10:07am 07/01/08