An unlikely pair: Cheese paired with coffee is a buzz for your taste buds
Posted by TheShot on 27 Jan 2011 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends
As Americans have ravaged through anything edible from the surface of the planet like a biblical plague of locusts, you can’t argue that we have become rather fat and bored. So as consumers, we have resorted to behaviors suggestive of infants who sit in their own mess sticking various things in their mouths until something maybe tastes good.
Pairing coffee with food comes to mind. Take cultures that have developed a pairing between local wines with regional food over many centuries, throw in the recent vogue for the wine analogy for coffee, and suddenly we can ignore centuries of coffee-growing cultures that have deliberately not paired their coffees with regional cuisine. If we’re going to pretend like we just invented decent coffee yesterday, why not go all out?
Which brings us to Tampa, Florida — home to its own biblical plagues (mostly flying insects in May) and America’s Death Metal capital. Although mentioned elsewhere before, over in Tampa they’re pairing their coffee with cheese: An unlikely pair: Cheese paired with coffee is a buzz for your taste buds | Daily Loaf. At least according to the local free weekly.
Personally, we like a nice Finca La Loma Colombia Caturra paired with Brillat Savarin and a little Morbid Angel on the stereo. Maybe it’s not as unique a pairing as nyethe, where a region in Indonesia laces cigarettes with coffee. (Thanks for the heads-up, Enrico.) But we’ll live like local pirates.
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Another extreme coffee culture here : putting hot COAL in your coffee, before you drink it. Yep, you read it right, COAL. They call it “Kopi Joss”, “joss”‘ meaning is kinda like “oomph” or “oorrah!” in your place. Even my friend said “Ya ain’t a real coffee drinker until you’ve drunk one!”. Talk about coffee drinking…
Oh yeah, BTW, one of the most deadly (I really mean it) combination of “lifestyle” related to coffee here is by combining a few different things :
Many cups or a thermos full of commodity-coffee-robusta-based + a lot of cigarettes + insomnia + eating fried snacks + doing it for years = STROKE. Hope it’s not common there in North America…
I once finished a box of Sushi and headed to The Blue Bottle in Hayes Valley. I ingest myself with an espresso to keep me going in the afternoon. Somehow the coffee tasted very different with a singular favor profile. After that I realize it could be a good tool to conflict my taste buds. Blocking out sweet by eating a cake, citrus flavor with fruit….etc. It is interesting even if the food may or may not be compatible to the coffee. You taste something hidden behind the dominate flavor.