Hands

Over at Food GPS, Josh Lurie interviewed a guy named Jay Murdoch, a very serious coffee guy currently shepherding all coffee activity at Kaffe 1668 in New York's TriBeCa district.  I don't know of the guy, nor the place (though if the awesome website is any indication, I really should), but when Josh asked him what inspires him about coffee, he had this beautiful piece to say:



"Hands.  Hands.  Coffee is all about hands to me.  It starts from picking the coffee cherry, and then that cherry has got to be removed.  The coffee?s got to be processed, sorted, graded, re-graded, cupped, re-sorted, dried and then it gets bagged.  Shipped.  Then it goes into the roasters? hands.  They have to put their hands on it and control.   Finally, it will typically be hands of packagers, though that?s becoming a little more automated these days.  Then it comes into our hands.  We can only see a degradation along the line.  Coffee?s never better than when you pick the cherry off the tree.  The more that those hands care about what they?re doing, the better coffee will be.  That?s what?s it?s about to me." 



I love this.



Here's the full interview.



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thanks to Ian Sane for the photo