This made me think of a great HN piece from a few weeks back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7921691

Balzac on pleasures and pains of coffee.

A generation before the Civil War but interesting to see how coffee was used experimentally to spur creativity and production. He mentions other artists with similar experiments.

To say we are addicted to coffee or tea is not just to talk of the dependence on caffeine but the whole set of rituals around it. It draws my attention and I love articles like this. I also love to learn how other people make tea or coffee (though I reserve the right to be very judgemental in that regard).

Last week I sat down to watch a movie randomly picked from the Critereon Collection on Hulu. "Jeanne Dielman..." by Chantal Ackerman. Blew me away. 3.5 hours of very little action and a central scene where she does little more than make coffee

Coincidentally I was sitting and reading this while grinding coffee. 2 morning rituals: HN and fresh ground coffee.