How To Tell if You're a Coffee Drinker from Seattle

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What Is This?

a.) A cup of coffee.

b.) A cup of black coffee.

c.) A cup of hand-milled, shade-grown, sustainably produced organic coffee -- brewed using only pure artesian spring water drawn from ancient, glacial-fed, deep-cavern aquifers -- double-gravity extracted and precision poured into a ceramic mug; a mug that was hand-thrown from regional clay on a foot-turned wheel-head and craft-fired in a thermally insulated, slope-stoked kiln, and then sold direct-to-the-consumer from a collective studio-gallery on Vashon Island.

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The New York Times travelled to Paris, the Seattle on the Seine, to meet with Parisian coffee gods. Their mission? To learn "how to discern a mediocre roast from an exceptional one, and the difference between trend and technique."

Good news for people not travelling to Paris: These rules for "How to Discern an Exceptional Cup of Coffee in Paris" apply to anywhere in the world, including your home town.

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