How to Expand Your Palate
Added 2024-10-28 08:00:02 +0000 UTCOne advantage of coffee, as a hobby, is that it is something you can enjoy every day. Another advantage of it is that it can be managed in a way that actually saves you money and delivers a superior product, compared to buying a coffee from a shop every day.
The chief downside of coffee as a hobby is that making it well can be fiddly and detail-intensive, and most people don’t have the patience or mental bandwidth to deal with fiddly details until after they have had their coffee.
Anyhoo, there was a coffee event at our local convention center, and Missy and I went. I wanted to sample several roasters output in one convenient place, and Missy wanted to watch me struggle through awkward personal interactions.
We both got what we were looking for.
When we got to the convention center, we were surprised at the length of the line. We were also surprised how many people had brought children to a coffee event. Most of the groups in the hundred-yard-long line had at least one toddler or small child. It struck us as odd, but we shrugged and hiked to the back of the line.
Next to the end of the line, there was a desk for the coffee event. I suspected this was just an information station, but I was wrong. It was the entrance to the coffee event. It turns out two events were happening that day: the coffee event we were there for, and “The Baby Market,” a baby merchandise fair (not the swap-meet-for-babies the name suggests) we had gotten in line for.
