The Reading Room

With summer and warmer weather approaching, a coffee lover's mind turns to thoughts of……bikini baristas? Well, at least that’s the message being given by some state's controversies over the attire of female baristas at coffee stands. The custom is cropping...

If you’re reading this, you have a computer, maybe a laptop. All laptop users who frequent Wi-Fi-equipped coffee shops to use the internet - or just the comfy surroundings – have probably considered the etiquette or protocols for avoiding laptop...

You’re an entrepreneur who runs a business online from your home. You need to interview potential clients, so you block out a few days to do that. But where do you meet with them? Up until now, it was most...

For several months there’ve been stories about the development of special thermal beans which promise to change the way we drink hot coffee - if not the way we drink coffee, at least the way we perceive coffee that is...

Energy drinks continue to attract consumers to down cans of the stuff increasingly, even with a less than good reputation. They have to be one of the most stocked items in stores across the world. Though they seem to be...

Jennifer Quasha endured a “skunking” incident this week and was able to maintain her sense of humor long enough to write up the incident for Fox News. She paints a hilarious picture of the aftermath and the attempt to restore...

Yet another bot is being demonstrated in the media this week, as the Huffington Post rolls out Rollin Justin. Justin is a whiz at catching balls – he has an 80% success rate in that. But unlike the other robot...

The hot question on Jayne Clark’s mind yesterday was “Would you pay $46 for a cup of cat poo coffee?” shining the spotlight once again on that most delectable delicacy, aka Kopi Luwak coffee. It seems that the AYANA Resort...

Success stories are such day brighteners. When blended with coffee, it’s a perfect combination. When a bad situation is turned upside down and made into a success story, and blended with coffee, it doesn’t get much better. Katya Wachtel shared...

Brant Boersma from Dutch Bros. coffee chain is a self-proclaimed comic geek, if not a coffee geek. He recently fulfilled a dream of producing a comic book for the coffee chain co-founded by his father. It is now available free...

There’s a lot of excitement down Australia way as Aussies have discovered a native coffee bean growing in its northernmost point, near Cape York, Queensland. Not that far from Papua New Guinea, a great coffee habitat, the area is in...

A Canadian news source just published an online article about a German university’s study of organic coffee production in Nicaragua. The University of Hohenheim researchers found that organic coffee farmers have become poorer when compared to conventional coffee growers over...

Tea is in the news again this week, but not just any tea. Now it’s being called “designer tea”. Yesterday our news item focused on the development of tea salons and whether tea might catch up to coffee in popularity....

What’s brewing with tea? It’s clear coffee is soaring and riding a wave of intense interest, with more and more heavy consumption, even in cultures where tea was the uncontested champion. However, a new trend may be steeping that will...

It’s a tough neighborhood in the air between Hong Kong and mainland China. At least that’s one message that’s being given by a recent story “Cabin Crew Routine Now ‘coffee, tea and Bruce Lee”, about how a Hong Kong airline...

We understand “elevator music” and “brunch music”– music that’s so identified with a place, when you hear it, you know where you are. Though “coffee shop music” is more varied, it may be that your favorite café is identified with...

It seems the single serve coffee systems known as capsule or POD brewers have made fans in Korea as in the rest of the world. This relative newcomer to the coffee scene is the hottest item right now. Why do...

It’s not that Parisians don’t drink coffee. After all, they gave us the “French roast” and the “French Press”. Though wine is the savored beverage in France, coffee is rapidly making inroads on that turf with a third wave coffee...

What’s on your congressman’s mind today? Is it US-world relations, the federal debt or the myriad of complicated problems facing us at this season? Would you believe it’s something entirely different, such as the ubiquitous question asked by many supermarket...

On April 13, a University of Barcelona researcher announced that the presence of a chemical called furan in coffee varies in amount depending on the mode of brewing. He stated that capsule preparations had the highest level of the chemical...

No matter how many articles you read on someone’s “how to make perfect coffee”, there is always something to learn. This week Lindsey Siegele weighed in with her advice gleaned from both experts and fellow students at the University of...