We were told by the Keaton Violet that Heart is a great coffee roastery for anyone who enjoys Wendelboe's beans. This might be because, from what we were told, one of the roasters are Swedish and thus have at least part of that Scandinavian sensibility we all love.

Anyway!

As we're getting ready to open sign-up for our AeroPress contest, SpoTOAST, we felt a Kenyan coffee, the Kenya Karinga, would be an appropriate choice.

And good lord does this AeroPress nicely.

The beans have a strong sweet scent of fruits, something that follows over to the flavor. You can easily pick up strawberry here, and the mouthfeel makes it feel like you've put cream in to the mix.

I can't remember many cups of coffee I've had that have been flavor bombs like this. That's what it is, however, a very very good and sweet flavor bomb. 

Heart is based in Portland, but they ship vacuum sealed bags of freshly roasted coffee on Tuesdays and Fridays. Shipping is $5. Run over to their website and order some coffee now. It's good for you.

There's just something about a good mac & cheese, isn't there? The dish is, at its most basic level, about the simplest one out there—Kraft has based a business around it—yet when you find one that's really good, it is one highly satisfying eat.

That might have been why we found this Facebook—people apparently still use it—update intriguing.

$100 you say?

We were intrigued enough to head down to Saranac and try it out ourselves, and we will agree—this was a good mac & cheese. But is it the best in Spokane?

Therefore we decided to extend Patrick's—you know him and love him from Spiceavore—$100 Mac & Cheese Challenge to you: Find a better mac & cheese than the one Saranac serves and Patrick will (or won't) give you $100.

How will these mac & cheeses be vetted? Simply e-mail team@spocool.com or tweet @spocool with your favorite spot, and we'll forward them on to Patrick, and probably check them out for ourselves.

Hey, if nothing else, we can find the area's best mac & cheese. Let the great experiment begin!