From an author of a book entitled "West Coast Coffee"

"Your book features an excellent section on home brewing and what that entails. I wonder if you have any advice for the nascent coffee enthusiast?"

"Just don't buy a fucking pod machine -- in most cases, you'll be paying upwards of $50/pound for stale coffee. Very little or none of the premium you're paying goes to the people who grow the coffee; it goes to the industrial process of putting generally cheap, pre-ground beans into wasteful little packages."