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Chart round-up: not much brewing
This morning I skipped breakfast because I couldn't be arsed, then I stole two currant shortcake biscuits from the office cupboard and had them with a nice cup of tea while I checked Myspace, where an empty inbox greeted me like a slap in the face. If I could take my tea from a vessel of my choosing it would undoubtedly be the one pictured right, offering as it does the advantage of ample snack storage facilities, but you can't always get what you want. What did you have for breakfast this morning? Which brings us nicely to this week's chart rundown, where there's a twinkle in Sean Kingston's eye as he spends a fifth week atop the single charts, the stirrings of a title assault on Rihanna's ten-week crown perhaps in evidence. Babyshambles ghost in at six with 'Delivery', and without wishing to give the game away, if I were to describe forthcoming album Shotter's Nation using an adjective, as is the fashion nowadays, I could prefix said adjective with the word ‘very' and end up with an apt summary of its overall quality.
Coffee pioneer Alfred Peet dies
Alfred Peet, a pioneer in specialty coffee who shared the stage with the Bay Area culinary stars the shaped the region's food-centric reputation, died Wednesday at his home in Ashland, Ore. He was 87. The company he founded, Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc., has more than 150 establishments, all but 22 in California, but the first opened at Walnut and Vine streets in Berkeley in 1966, taking its place in what would become the Gourmet Ghetto. With his emphasis on specialty coffees and unique brewing techniques, Peet, the son of a Dutch roaster, put specialty coffee on the map - and in the process influenced the founders of Starbucks. "Up until the time he started, in 1966, basic American coffee was swill," said Jim Reynolds, roastmaster emeritus at Peet's.
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