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
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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.
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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
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Foods from Open Flarvest Natural Food Grocery include Edam
cheese, raw figs, daikon radish, tofu, whole wheat spaghetti,
wild rice and green lentils.
