Coffee!

If I can't drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment, I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat

So, many years back I worked at a bookstore on Haight street, the long departed Austen Books. Across the street from Austen was a lovely cafe called Cantata Coffee. Interested in the name, I asked the owner, a sweet older gentleman of some European extraction. He explained it was named for JS Bach's Coffee Cantata. He also gave me a philosophy of coffee that included something to the effect of "It should be hotter than hell and blacker than a woman's heart". Or something like that.

It was several years before I picked up a copy of said cantata, but I share it with you today. Wikipedia has a nice summary of the cantata here.




Kantaten BWV 211 u. 212 (rs/320/24 minutes)