> his devotion to coffee, says Vietnamese coffee sucks - that it's
> displacing Latin American beans in supermarket brews, but he doesn't
> have any. Is he wrong?
That's the low-end stuff -- price-dumped because of overproduction. The high-end stuff is juicy, it has this tangy, unpredictable quality, reminds me of this brew from northeast Thailand.
Wasn't it Balzac who wrote about the sublime of coffee? Or was it Maupassant?
-- Dennis