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Louisiana Pride Grist Mill

Louisiana Pride Grist Mill grinds field-dried corn to make Stone Ground Corn Meal, Stone Ground Corn Flour, Stone Ground Polenta and Stone Ground Grits. They are a small family-owned, family-operated grist mill located in Pride, Louisiana. Pride is just north of Baton Rouge, where I live.

They’ve been operating for a couple years already and are now establishing an Internet presence.

At this time, we’ve set up an “under construction” site with ordering and contact information. Longer term, they will have much more information on the site about their products.

For now, you can visit the temporary site and you can order stone ground corn meal, grits, flour and polenta by phone — 225-654-6131 — from Louisiana Pride Grist Mill.

With the latest news — a new Star Trek movie is on the way — featuring James T. (Tiberius) Kirk during his Starfleet Academy days — many fans have mixed emotions.

You know, “they’re doing it again, I’m not getting suckered into spending more money on Star Trek movies, Opening Day, Sure, I’ll be there.”

The User Friendly cartoon strip has a view that many fans will appreciate…

I had a special treat this afternoon. Some friends brought me some Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans to try. It had probably been 10 years since I had tried JBM and I haven’t bought any already-roasted coffee beans in almost five years.

I had been bragging about a fantastic lot of Harrar Horse (Lot 30) that I got from Sweet Maria’s, home of some of the finest finest home-roasting green coffee beans, roasters and coffee machines.

This Lot 30, a.k.a. “Blueberry Horse,” has significant natural flavors (not added flavorings!) of chocolate and blueberry.

I had written about the Blueberry Horse before and my friends were very interested in trying some.

Today, I took some freshly roasted Blueberry Horse to Walter & Karen, who had a surprise of some excellent JBM beans for me. Of course, I brought them home and immediately brewed some in my vacuum coffee pot — the brewer of the smoothest coffee I know.

It was fine. What can I say? It was fine. I’d brew another pot now, except then I’d be awake ALL night instead of just part of the night!

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The European Space Agency’s Venus Express probe has reached Venus and is slowing down to make its descent. It will do its analysis as it falls through the atmosphere.

As reported at the Register: “The Venus Express orbiter successfully completed its voyage to our inner neighbour this morning with a handbrake turn. Engineers fired up rockets to slow it down so that Venus’ gravity could capture the European Space Agency probe.”

Read more in The Register’s article

“Reduce Your Phone Bill!” Ever heard that? I bet this guy wishes he’d switched!

The New Straits Times (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ) reports:

PENDANG, KEDAH: A meat importer had a shock when he received a hefty telephone bill — for RM800 trillion.

That’s about $220 TRILLION DOLLARS at today’s exchange rates.

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I learned something about my Cuisinart DCC-1200 “Brew Central” coffee pot this morning. It wasn’t a pleasant experience, but a necessary one.

First I ground some freshly roasted Yemen Mocha Mattari, which I roasted in my gas grill / RK Drum roaster earlier this week.

I put the freshly ground coffee into the Brew Central. I flipped the switch to start it.

But, when I came back about 10 minutes later to get some coffee — there wasn’t any!

Apparently I also have to put water in the coffee maker in order to brew coffee.

Cuisinart DCC-1200 12-Cup Brew Central Coffeemaker, Black and Stainless Steel (Kitchen) Manufacturer:Cuisinart

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