Quotes from James Freeman

Making coffee is a simple art, yet it also has so many aspects: practice, precision, and the sheer pleasure of making something you know you're going to enjoy. It's an expanding universe of wonderfulness; you never run out of things to get better at.

Espresso is a physical act: a manifestation of will, effort, and desire exerted upon a machine and an agricultural product. Every espresso you make will be slightly different.

People will wake up in the dark and pad to their kitchen needing strength, and the reassurance that something delightful is about to happen—and hoping that this small chore of making coffee might set the tone for a day filled with difficult, wonderful things.

If it's a drug, then it is the best drug. Good coffee makes us curious about pleasure. It makes us who we wish to be.

Making an espresso is a performance that lasts ninety seconds and then you're done. You go on to the next performance. You may get applause or you may get boos, and then you move on.

Warren Buffett likes to say, "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.