My apologies, I meant to say, so “fruity.”
When Ashley woke, that cup was there waiting even as I was far away on campus.
What is this adamant and fervent devotion to the coffee for two, every morning, no matter what?
Photo: Jennifer Causey
It was given to me by someone now in their 40th year of a very good marriage.
And it’s advice I want to take solemnly.
We’re two chefs, my wife and I.
We run a restaurant.
So I have to admit, nighttime reparations are a pretty tall order for us.
Have you ever heard two left-wing feminist lesbians quarrel over the equal distribution of “women’s work”?
Both of us have known what it is to go to bed very angry and very apart.
What we have never once done, however, is miss morning coffee.
And there are two cups.
The day there is no cup left for the wifeeither oneis the day it’s over.
A Melitta #4 unbleached coffee filter.
Ceramic cone over a ceramic pot.
The Japanese long-necked kettle full of water brought to boil and then shut off.
Left for a minute to settle down, so to speak, after all that violent bubbling.
I love you."
The one that was The End, you thought.
She paid and she left this one for you for when you got here."
1 greatest cup of coffee of all time.
The series originally appeared in EatingWell Magazine, January/February 2020.
