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Exotic teas, coffees tempt buyers By Dionne Searcey Staff Reporter Bored with Maxwell House or Folgers? Gourmet grounds are brewing at Lincoln's finest coffee and tea shops. The Perfect Cup, Suite 221 in the Atrium, and The Mill, 800 P St., each sell 50 varieties of coffee. Euphoria Herbs at 4139 O St. offers 20 different coffees that arouse anyone's taste buds, said Yolonda Henderson, manager. Coffee at these local stores is imported from countries around the world including Sweden, Guatemala, Indonesia and Africa. A unique brand sold at the Perfect Cup is Trip of the Andes, grown above 5,000 feet in the South American mountains, said man ager Mark Shriner. The stores sell amaretto, vanilla cream, Hawaiian Kona, chocolate raspberry, espresso and other eye opening flavors. "Most everything is unusual," Val Didrichsons, an employee at The Mill, said. But basic Colombian coffee is still popular throughout the city's gourmet shops Coffee flavors at the Perfect Cup - - - —. wm —mm mm— mma mam mmm tti range from their best seller — the exclusive Nebraska Savory — to the most expensive — Jamaican Blue Mountain. This brand costs about $22 a pound. Other coffees at area shops cost about $6 to $10 a pound. A single pot serving of coffee can be purchased at the Perfect Cup for only 98 cents. Not a coffee drinker? Never fear. Lincolnites can find an abundant supply of tea at area stores. Teas are popular with custom ers, Henderson said, because they can be drunk hot or cold. Euphoria sells 80 different brands of tea. Customers can buy Oriental, black or green teas. The store will grind the tea, package it and label it for patrons. The Perfect Cup sells a flavor ful variety of teas including kiwi passion fruit and a Chinese green tea called pin head gun powder. Fruit flavors are popular at The Mill, Didrichsons said. Apricot, strawberry and wild cherry are big sellers. A Japanese tea sold at The Mill called Rikicha is a decaffeinated drink that's high indicium. Euphoria sells teas that claim to arouse more than the drinker's taste buds. Teas of love and tranquillity supposedly "motivate wherever the love thing comes from," Hen derson said. The teas range in price, selling from 75 cents an ounce to bulk rates of $7 a pound. Coffee and tea paraphernalia are as widely available as the beverages themselves. Lincoln stores sell everything from mugs, pots and kettles to grinders, es presso makers and roasters. Customers can also buy cottee flavored candy to supplement the real thing. Dark, white or milk chocolate covered coffee beans can be purchased at the stores through out Lincoln. A variety of customers from all See COFFEE on 10 JNDAY NIGHT SPECIAT i 5-8 FMVI. ONLY LJ j i^. 3 Tacos or 3 Softsliells i p|§||w for only ^ - | j ;m TACO | 245 N. 13th St.! F^REE drink^refHls_anytime _ ^Location Only_ j ~ Now! 3 VaIue Menus. ”] /, .. — Live Music By Zurich?mjli riday, February 8,1991 i > 1 9:00 P.M. -1:00 A.M. h Lincoln Station, Great Hal haymarket, Lincoln Sponsored By: AIA5 8t A5D 1 y Tickets Avaiable At Union ^formation Desk JJj Freshness, quality bring health By Connie L. Sheehan Senior Editor According to Webster's, exotic is defined as something strange or different in a way that is striking or enticing. I've had a rough time convinc ing friends who would just assoon binge on a one-pound package of Oreos that I consider health food exotic. But what can be more enticing than bread so fresh that it can't be sliced until it cools, or glistening scallops and shrimp newly arrived from bustling coastal towns. Since moving to their new loca tion, Open Harvest, 1618 South St., has enlarged its stock of en ticements, added a deli and in cluded fresh fish among its offer ings. Jerry Johnston, operations manager, provided me with the granatour. Probably the most striking ar rangement is a collection of about 300 jars filled with everything from medicinal herbs for bodily ailments to dried garlic for this evening's hetti. e choice of common spices and teas are uncommonly plenti ful, but the most exotic of names covered many of the jars ining the walls. Although 1 personally knew of nouse for Uvaursi leaf and Myrrh Gum powder, I recognized the horehound my grandfather used to dole out for sore throats. While the wall of jars took up a goodly po. tion of one wall of the store, for me, the most enticing products lay hidden in a comer by the deli. At Open Harvest, bread is not the pre-sliced white fluff that many five-year-olds use to roll into dougn balls. Instead, each morning the shelves are stocked with fresh baked REAL bread. Whole-wheat, raisin and French join the more uncommon varieties of rosemary, wheat germ. And if these temptations were n't enough, bread from the Lithu anian Bakery in Omaha is expressed four times a week to line the shelves with loaves of dark, dense Lithu anian sourdough rye, regular sourdough and pumpernickel. Succulent fresh-baked sweets cried to be noticed in the case next to the bread shelf, but I ignored them before my New Year's diet was tempted too far. Don't think those perfectly shaped coconut macaroons, fig bars, spice muf fins, molasses maple cnews and chocolate chip cookies weren't hard to resist. Johnston explained as we walked the aisles that pasta had become a popular product but the handmade varieties decorating the shelves were as uncommon as an v I'd seen. Flavors like tomato basil, Cajun, garlic and parsley, spin See HEALTH on 10 1-----J joe Heinzlc/Daily Nebraskan Foods from Open Flarvest Natural Food Grocery include Edam cheese, raw figs, daikon radish, tofu, whole wheat spaghetti, wild rice and green lentils.
