Lots of coffee people assume that coffee quality was mediocre to bad in & #39;the old days& #39;. However, the more I read about how people like Ukers and Bickford thought about coffee, and how old-timers remember it, the surer I am that coffee was often pretty great 100 years ago. 1/
For example, in 1986, an elderly coffee importer named Charles Behre said of 1922 San Francisco, "you couldn& #39;t get a bum cup of coffee in town." I believe him. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-01-12-me-27245-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/archives/... 2/