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I learned to make coffee from Steinbeck, who himself learned "on Bourbon Street from giants in the earth":

"I went into my house and set coffee to cooking, and remembering how Roark Bradford liked it, I doubled the dosage, two heaping tablespoons of coffee to each cup and two heaping for the pot. I cracked an egg and cupped out the yolk and dropped white and shells into the pot, for I know nothing that polishes coffee and makes it shine like that."

That, and "a little chicory for bite".

All in all, a truly outstanding cup of coffee, for those dedicated few.