News arrived yesterday that the CIA has formed a partnership with Counter Culture. Reaction around the world has been a swift and resounding "What?!" And yet it is true. The implications of this unusual partnership bring up many troubling questions, paramount among them is how...

Okay, I just can't go on with this farce any longer. Not that it can't be done, mind you, but there are simply too many possible jokes embedded within this news item for any sane person to willingly go on.

So the real news is that the CIA--not the infamously humorless and freakishly disturbed US intelligence agency but The Culinary Institute of America--is developing a coffee curriculum in partnership with roaster and public educator Counter Culture Coffee. They plan to offer the coffee curriculum as a part of the culinary college’s baking and pastry arts program, including a new espresso and single-origin French press program for the CIA’s Apple Pie Bakery Café. Must. Resist. Mom and Apple Pie joke. Argh!

Link (via Coffee Talk)

Post originally published by Milwaukee Specialty Food and Coffee.