{"product_id":"the-daily-grind-a-turn-back-in-time","title":"The Daily Grind — A Turn Back in Time","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1241863628?badge=0\u0026amp;autopause=0\u0026amp;player_id=0\u0026amp;app_id=58479\u0026amp;autoplay=1\u0026amp;muted=1\u0026amp;loop=1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"The Daily Grind — A Turn Back in Time\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003eAlso available as part of our complete 19th-century coffee experience. Explore \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sports-trunk.com\/products\/the-lost-art-of-coffee-the-quest-for-the-perfect-brew\" title=\"The Lost Art of Coffee — The Quest for the Perfect Brew\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Lost Art of Coffee — The Quest for the Perfect Brew\u003c\/a\u003e...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Dentist. A President. And the Lost Pleasure of Slowing Down.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe kitchen is quiet when I set the coffee beans on the counter. I take hold of the wooden handle and look at that beautiful old-fashioned wheel. Before I turn it, though, I find myself thinking about one of the strangest little stories in coffee history. In 1798, a dentist named Thomas Bruff patented a coffee mill. A dentist, helping people enjoy a drink notorious for staining teeth. I still can't decide whether that's irony or genius. Probably a little of both.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree years later, Bruff wrote to President Thomas Jefferson about a mill that could grind a pound of coffee in four and a half minutes. And here's what makes the story even better: Bruff would also serve as Jefferson's dentist. Thomas writing to Thomas, about coffee of all things. I wonder whether Jefferson smiled at the contradiction. Nobody recorded his reaction, but I know what mine would have been.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJefferson genuinely loved coffee. At Monticello, beans were roasted and ground in the kitchen, and years later he called coffee “the favorite beverage of the civilised world.” When I imagine that kitchen, I hear the scrape of a grinding mechanism and picture somebody giving their full attention to an ordinary task. I can almost smell the fresh grounds. Maybe I'm romanticizing it a little, but there's something about making coffee by hand that I don't want to lose.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI pour my own beans into the hopper of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Daily Grind — A Turn Back in Time\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and begin turning. The wheel moves beneath my hand with a steady, reassuring rhythm. I hear the beans being ground, feel the resistance of the mechanism, and notice the aroma beginning to fill the room. Nothing flashes, beeps, or tells me to hurry. For those few minutes, my kitchen stops feeling like a place I rush through on my way to something else. I actually want to stay.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoon there'll be a flame beneath glass, water rising, and a fresh cup at the end of it all. But I don't reach for the next step yet. Thomas Bruff was proud that his mill could grind a pound of coffee in four and a half minutes; more than two centuries later, I'm deliberately taking my time. Maybe that's the part Jefferson would have appreciated, too. 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