Jim Nichols, of Lafayette, says, "My grandmother, Mary Kate Nichols, of Baton Rouge, liked really strong coffee. "My dad said she would make coffee in a percolator and use a sawed-off broom handle to ...

I promise I'm going to ease off on the coffee stories real soon. But first, a coffee story from Shooter Mullins: "In Cuba the vendors brewed strong black coffee and sold it by the tiny cupful. The ...