Oh, and you can consider the above set of links the Trimethyldioxypurist's guide to getting started as an enthusiast. Obsessive is a whole other level, and you'll know it if you're there*, and you won't need Food & Wine to tell you about it.

Sorry, a little off topic here -- let us reiterate: we really enjoyed the feature in Food & Wine magazine this month. They gave a some play to Ritual Roasters, one of our faves, in the magazine version. The extended online version also mentions our beloved Blue Bottle (who, by the way, won't return our calls or emails. That's okay; we understand that you shouldn't encourage stalkers). Silicon Valley's Barefoot Coffee Roasters is mentioned in the print version; the Web version doesn't include the snippet on boutique roasters for some reason. Humph. Nor does the Web version include F&W's proclamation that SBUX (that's the trading ticker for Starbucks, folks) is the "Best Big Roaster."

(P.S. Check out the print version of SFist for all sorts of bonus features the online version doesn't have, like letters to the editor and samples of our new coffee-scented cologne, "Enthusiast For Men." Available at your specialty newsstands.).

It's nice when coffee stuff hits big media. The more aware we are of coffee quality as a whole, the better it's likely to get.

* Okay, so back to this whole "obsession" thing. Because, if you haven't noticed by now, it's all about us.