Dan Abel wrote:
> In article >,
> pure kona > wrote:
>
>
>> We've roasted probably several thousand pounds. I have smelled
>> thousands of pounds of unroasted Kona coffee. Promise, the green
>> (unroasted) coffee smells good and the roasting, frankly, is heavenly.
>> We do it on the porch out our back door and it really is fabulous.
>
> Just had a talk with my daughter. There is a place that roasts coffee
> down the block from her office. She likes the smell. There's a coffee
> place downtown here that roasts their coffee right there. She likes
> that smell also (and buys most of her coffee there).
>


Years ago I spent a week in Madrid and in the center of the city
you could smell the roasting coffee everywhere. Every little
cafe seemed to be roasting its own beans. It was a very nice,
spicy scent, like opening a new package of coffee but about 100
times stronger.

gloria p