There is something comfortable about the chatter at Small World Coffee in Princeton, like a jazz band pushing its multi-piece improvisation into overdrive.
The chattering din, dozens of voices playing against each other, the individual bits of conversation rising, making themselves known:
“The academic response,” says one; “students ask me about that,” says another. “I saw him yesterday.”
It is a Friday morning, rainy and cold, and I have a meeting in 30 minutes. But I love to sit here and listen and write on those mornings when I'm not teaching or going for a run.
Not everyone would agree, Some might even find it pretentious in its Princetonness, but I find it comfortable and intellectually stimulating.
Small World tops my list of places where I can sit and sip coffee, write or talk and watch and listen — the Friday Five.
1. Small World Coffee
2. Rock 'n' Joe, Kendall Park
3. It's a Grind, Plainsboro
4. Main Street, Kingston
5. Pierre's Deli, South Brunswick; Teddy's, Cranbury
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Hank Kalet 