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What Your Barista Knows That You Don't: An Evening at Daily Drama There is a peculiar snobbery that has crept into the way we talk about coffee in India. We now know enough to say single-origin with the confidence of someone who has been saying it for years. We can distinguish, or at least claim to distinguish, between a Chemex and a V60. We know that ordering a cappuccino after noon is considered, in certain circles, a social faux pas of the highest order. What we don't always know — and this is the part nobody tells you — is what any of it actually means. I had occasion to confront this gap in my education recently, at Daily Drama in Defence Colony. If you haven't been, Daily Drama is the sort of place that Defence Colony does rather well: thoughtfully designed, serious about what it serves, and populated by the kind of crowd that has an opinion about everything, including its coffee. On this particular evening, Daily Drama had partnered with Coffee Sutra Specialty Roasters for what they were calling an immersive masterclass. I had expected a pleasant hour of sipping and nodding. What I got was rather more than that. The session was led by two men who clearly love what they do — Dushyant Singh of Coffee Sutra, and Rishabh Bhambri of Daily Drama — and between them, they possess the rare ability to make expertise feel like conversation rather than lecture. This matters more than it sounds. There is nothing worse than being educated at. The best teachers make you feel as though you arrived at the knowledge yourself, and that is precisely the quality both Singh and Bhambri brought to the evening. Dushyant opened with something that, I confess, I did not know: coffee is a fruit. Not a grain, not a legume, not some obscure agricultural product processed beyond recognition — a fruit. It grows on trees in tropical regions, and the plant produces a small, bright red fruit called a cherry. Inside each cherry sit two seeds. Those seeds, once extracted, dried, and roasted, are what we call coffee beans. The bean, in other words, begins life as the pip of a fruit. I found myself wondering why nobody had ever told me this before.

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