First, buy Turkish ground (to dust-powder fineness) French Roast coffee from
The Cheesery - hey, no excuses, they ship anywhere!
Next, pour boiled filtered water through a melita or paper filter containing 3 heaping teaspoons of this black gun powder either directly into the cup, or if you want to make designs in the foam, into a coffee warmer or thermos; mix this in a 6 oz ceramic cup with about 1 tablespoon good honey, and about 1 tsp vanilla- the cheap Safeway kind that has alcohol- not the Rainbow Grocery fancy organic alcohol-free stuff- and then add hand-frothed whole milk or half-and-half. Make sure you have froth on top. Note: this doesn't work nearly as well with soy milk, but if you must, use Vitasoy vanilla. If you saved out some coffee in your coffee warmer, pour a little heart through the foam. Last, sift (gently shake) a little cocoa powder over the top.
This is the sit-down and read The New Yorker type of cup of coffee, not the hit-the-road to go sit in a traffic jam type of cup of coffee, if you get my drift. It could be used as a nuclear-bomb-power diuretic in the emergency room at SF General, but thank the gods Kris is not alive to hear me say that.
Still to come (hopefully) on the Prix Fixe menu du Kovique:
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BBQ Salmon Marinade ---
BBQ Chicken Marinade ---
Kris' favorite wines and other beverages ---
Kris' favorite desserts ---
The World's Best Baked Potatoes ---
Tips for Braising Asparagus Spears ---
Tips for Making the Best BBQ Steak ---
The World's Best Croissant Sandwich ---
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Got Conspiracy?
Mayhem crime archives I just know Kris would've loved this link.- Oh! how she loved the stories of serial killers and suicide cults! If it was dismaying and depressing and overly violent to others, it turned her crank, so to say. The truer and gorier the better. She had no patience for fictional violence- it was too violent for her if it was someone's *idea* but grimly fascinating to her if it was someone's *act.* We all have our taboo little pleasures, and this was one of hers.
The Mayhem Jim Jones Blurb From a letter I found in the Mayhem archives: "A minor correction for the Jim Jones blurb: Not all of Congressman Ryan's party got killed. Jackie Spier, then his aide, got shot, but survived as did at least one other person. She then became a state Assemblywoman here in California [in South San Francisco, actually]. In promoting gun control legislation, she has made pretty good mileage out of getting shot at Jonestown. A paraphrased quote: 'Well, I've been shot before. Have you?' Just a little nitpick." Kris believed gun control was learning a good stance and using both hands, but she would've loved this little tidbit.
The Jonestown Story from the Cult Awareness Network
A well-cited article detailing how Moscone appointed Jones to a sinecure in order to allow him to commit election fraud and ensure Moscone's reelection
(still to come) Got K2 Trivia?
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Wilsonia Links ---
Kris' article for the SF Dyke March ---
Did you know Kris used to raise hummingbirds? ---
SF Dog Park / Anti-Leash Laws Groups ---
Bernal Heights Links
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