British coffee recommendations, 1922

You can gain such interesting insights from primary documents, actual old books and articles and other writing; this is a tiny series from the 1922 collection Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jekyll (the sister-in-law of the famous Gertrude the gardener). Re coffee, which includes reminders of where coffee was grown and exported in those days:

Good coffee may come from Arabia or India, from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, or via France with an admixture of chicory; but its flavour and excellence will be derived from daily careful roasting and grinding.

She also recommends frothing some cream and pouring it over milky coffee just before serving, yum!