Iced coffee ....
I've started ending my day with an iced coffee -- no sugar. I find it gives me just a little bit of a pick me up and it cools me off. It was 94 yesterday, I needed the cooling....
I enjoy all types of coffee, but right now, Dunkin Donuts is my dealer of choice (availability/convenience...). Now, if I could stay away from the bagels and donuts while in there....
I can relate about the heat. I live in Austin and it is supposed to be over 95 through the weekend.
As for iced coffee, I like that too, but I like it Vietnamese style, mixed with sweetened, condensed milk. I just make sure to work the extra calories from the milk into my daily calorie allowance. And the coffee is made in a metal coffee press like the one shown at this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A0_ph%C3%AA _s%E1%BB%AFa_%C4%91%C3%A1
I have some extra dark roast beans that I use to make it. Almost as much fun to make as it is to drink it.
My partner loves it, but I don't. Actually I don't drink iced drinks at all, probably just because my teeth are sensitive to cold.
When I've had coffee iced, it seems that the taste is diminished, so one would have to make it stronger. Right now I can't afford really good coffee, so I don't make it as strong as I might like in any case.
The article is very interesting, and I intend to follow some of the links. French colonists also influenced coffee drinking in Morocco--this seems similiar to nous-nous, half coffee and half cream. In cafés, coffee is made in antique (preferably) espresso machines, which turn out something between the viscoscity of espresso as it theoretically should be, and the product of a French press. It's glorious--café noir is how I like it.
Right now I'm drinking black coffee made in a French press, Folger's "Gourmet Supreme" dark. Very good value for the price.
Since you aren't using any sugar... there are a lot of sugar-free syrups. When I splurge and make coffee or have a vanilla diet coke, it tastes sooo good! Just thought I would share =)
