--- title: Portlandia: Coffee Talk With Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen description: Carrie Brownstein joined her 'Portlandia' costar Fred Armisen talk coffee on the Cooking Channel's web series “You’re Eating it Wrong" canonical: https://time.com/3548179/portlandia-fred-armisen-carrie-brownstein-coffee/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-30T15:13:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:12.549Z og:title: Let Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Tell You How to Drink Your Coffee og:description: The 'Portlandia' costars appeared on the Cooking Channel's web series “You’re Eating it Wrong" og:url: https://time.com/3548179/portlandia-fred-armisen-carrie-brownstein-coffee/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Let Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Tell You How to Drink Your Coffee twitter:description: The 'Portlandia' costars appeared on the Cooking Channel's web series “You’re Eating it Wrong" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Let Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Tell You How to Drink Your Coffee  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Oct 30, 2014 3:13 PM UTC  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Oct 30, 2014 3:13 PM UTC Coffee is no laughing matter. “You have to go in with the graveness and seriousness of a court date, of a wedding, of a funeral,” says Carrie Brownstein, who joined her _Portlandia_ costar Fred Armisen on an episode of the Cooking Channel’s web series “[You’re Eating it Wrong](https://www.youtube.com/user/CookingChannel/featured).” The video is light on actual tips for preparation, focusing more on coffee shop etiquette: how to order, tip and engage in serious conversation with a friend by using your mug as a prop to convey the gravity of what you’re saying. Armisen and Brownstein appeared on the show to promote [_The Portlandia Cookbook_](http://portlandiacookbook.com/book.php), which features real recipes inspired by the absurd food-related sketches on their show (chickens raised on an [organic cult](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8SjkDq2ZwI), to name just one example). _Portlandia_ has, not surprisingly, taken on coffee as one of its Portland-centric parodies. An episode from the third season has Brownstein and Armisen leading an [underground meeting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jml7NVYm8cs) of bearded baristas drafting a manifesto intended to “protect us as the artists that we are.” It’s only fitting, then, that they teach us how to be good consumers of one of their city’s finest provisions. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3548179/portlandia-fred-armisen-carrie-brownstein-coffee/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3548179/portlandia-fred-armisen-carrie-brownstein-coffee/"},"headline":"Let Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Tell You How to Drink Your Coffee","datePublished":"2014-10-30T15:13:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:12.549Z","description":"“The most important thing is just enjoy your coffee, have lots of snacks”","url":"https://time.com/3548179/portlandia-fred-armisen-carrie-brownstein-coffee/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Cooking","Coffee","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3548179/portlandia-fred-armisen-carrie-brownstein-coffee/","name":"Let Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Tell You How to Drink Your Coffee"}}]}] ```