Title: Off the Record

Author: Samara McDowell

In: Sport 32: Summer 2004

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, December 2004

Part of: Sport

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Sport 32: Summer 2004

Patent It

Patent It

The making of coffee, in the kitchen of the house that has been put at their disposal in Taupo, is a drawn-out, ceremonial process. The water is put into a coffee jug first; then the grounds are lowered in, gently and slowly.

‘It's the Gravitational Method, man,’ Jonathan says. ‘We're going to patent it.’

Riki watches in silence. After a while he says, very quietly, ‘I thought of that.’