The Reading Room

The coffee culture is fluid in the US, never really standing still. The intense competition between coffee shops creates the need to rise higher, do more, source better beans, provide more ambiance…in a never-ending coffee war. Several articles in the...

According to a Reader’s Digest story (published on “Shine”) on 13 things baristas won’t tell customers, there are some barista secrets we all might want to search out. Knowing some of these secrets may help us to better order our...

Farming has never been a career for the faint of heart. Weather can change and rain at the wrong time, or bring too little rain, too much rain, too little or too much sun, and the bugs and the ……the...

No, you don’t have to order a decaf gravy or cake. The coffee used in cooking shouldn’t keep you awake later, according to Bryn Mawr chef David Clouser. In a recent story on the Inquirer Digital, Clouser shares his cooking-with-coffee...

Look into the cups in the photo. Who do you see? Do you recognize the couple? These latte art depictions are in honor of the upcoming April 29th wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, created for the International Food...

The headline doesn’t say it all, but a man was arrested in Britain last week for making coffee. Of course, he had made it in the police station, and he also made a bowl of porridge to complete his breakfast....

The online Travel and Leisure magazine just announced its survey results for the top twenty cities in America in regard to coffee culture. The survey recorded more than just the coffee category – there are 53 additional qualities. So if...

The online news sources have been popping since last Thursday’s announcement that a Swedish study demonstrated a correspondence between the drinking of coffee and a decrease in the risk of strokes in the female population tested. The sample of 34,670...

Joyce Wadler wrote a clever story on this week’s International Housewares Show in Chicago, from the perspective of aliens visiting earth. One of their main observations would be that Earth people, 60,000 of whom attended the show, love coffee –...

A cute Southeast Asian marsupial likes coffee beans, and because of this, a rare variety of coffee was developed. This cat-like animal, a Luwak, pre-processes the beans, quite naturally, and then deposits them on the ground for coffee farmers to...

The growing call and allure of coffee continues around the globe, partially fueled by Starbucks and other coffee shop chains like Costa, Coffee House, Coffee Mania and Coffee Bean. Even though coffee has been a popular drink in Russia for...

They keep coming. Another day, another benefit from coffee - Seems like many researchers are studying the health effects of coffee. This week, Eating Well Magazine published five reasons the Dietitian Kerri-Ann Jennings won’t quit coffee. There is more evidence...

Every day there are articles about how healthy coffee is, and studies are being quoted that support coffee’s benefits for literally every part of the anatomy. We’ve reported in this space about coffee’s links to lower incidences of heart disease,...

A recent Sacramento Bee column on gardening discussed the use of coffee grounds in compost. A good point was made that gardeners should be careful not to use too much of a good thing. The best way to do this...

Yet another study on caffeine has reversed past negative beliefs about the substance and the food most associated with it, coffee. This more recent study by a team at Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, Israel, involved 80 subjects in...

A whole industry wants to make money off of how you feel. No, that’s not the psychiatric field, but the beverage industry. The media buzz has been about energy drinks, supplement enhanced drinks that give you energy and help you...

According to Senator Chuck Schumer, the neighborhood coffee shop may not be the safest place, cyberwise, to use your laptop. He is asking websites such as Twitter, Facebook and Yahoo to switch from the standard HTTP protocol to the more...

Rwanda, a small country in Africa’s center, is rich is beautiful scenery, mountainous terrain and volcanic soil. It has all the ingredients for great coffee production, and thanks to some cycle enthusiasts, the coffee farmers are receiving a big boost...

A recent ROASTe article reported on a coffee exhibit in Prague. A current exhibit of coffee culture related items in the Philadelphia Museum of Art tells another kind of story about the world of design as it relates to coffee...

February’s end is finding many parts of the northern to mid-US enduring near freezing temperatures, at least at night. This means that many of our drive-through coffee shop employees are facing very uncomfortable working conditions in order to prepare and...

A study released this week on major triggers of heart attacks listed coffee as one of the triggers. The researchers looked at 36 other studies to come up with a ranking of the most common triggers and similar ranking of...