On Point with Tom Ashbrook disusses coffee in a podcast titled “Coffee’s new play for your taste buds”
Back in the day in the USA, coffee was coffee – just pour it. Maxwell House, Folgers in your cup. Just give us the joe. And a whole lot of coffee still runs just that way. But then came the dark roast revolution. Starbucks, riding it in a huge way. Deep, bold dark roast as the hipster hallmark. The new “must have” coffee.
But American tastes in coffee run wider than that. A lot of vendors are now pushing light roast again. Blech to the bold, they say. Don’t burn the beans. Light will wake you up just as well, and with more flavors.
This hour, On Point: What we want in our java. Our joe.
-Tom Ashbrook
(Source: onpoint.wbur.org)
