Cusk's sixth novel portrays the lives of contemporary middle- and upper-middle-class English mothers living in a placid, prestigious London suburb "where women drank coffee all day and pushed prams around the grey, orderly streets".
"When the morning shift comes in at 5 30 a.m., they'll cup the coffees," said Mr. Morrissey, who won the prestigious World Barista Championship when he was working for Square Mile Coffee Roasters in London.
Carguilo is also the winner of the 2012 United States Barista Championship, a prestigious competition in which entrants deliver a lecture on coffee while preparing a series of espresso-based beverages.
He showed exactly the same mild old-fashioned courtesy to everyone, whether it was the director of a prestigious festival, or the director's PA who brought him a coffee.
Here, Specter could have explored how even a prestigious science writer like himself was seduced by the highly unlikely possibility that coffee enemas might cure pancreatic cancer.
Unlike most French politicians, who graduated from the National School of Administration, Mr. Raffarin got his diploma from a prestigious business school, then went to work for a food company as a wholesale coffee salesman.
Perhaps artisanal pink salt from Senegal's Lake Retba will sit on a prestigious restaurant's tables, as well as dishes of baobab ice cream or coffees favored with Selim pepper.
The most prestigious of these are the annual Cup of Excellence competitions, now organized in eight coffee-growing countries by a United States-based nonprofit group, an event Mr. Prince of Coffeegeek calls "Coffee's Olympics".
She secured a follow-up coffee meeting with a high-ranking man in the banking industry who helped her land a prestigious summer associate position at his company.
The coffee flavour of gelato maestros Anna Cristina Salomone and her husband Giulio carried off the top award at the prestigious ice-cream world cup in Rimini in 2008, while their Piedmont hazelnut picked up third prize a year later.
"I basically got coffee for him at the Williamstown Theater Festival for a couple of years," Mr. Evered said, referring to the prestigious Massachusetts organization.
