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News from the small nation of Croatia proves that the coffee world is not discriminatory. You don’t have to be a Starbucks to institute a new trend. Techmash in the UK posted a story this month about a coffee shop...

The Examiner.com ran a short article announcing that today, January 25, is the annual Irish Coffee Day. There’s still time to celebrate with the delicious hot coffee-Irish Whiskey combo that’s perfect for a cold January night. Apparently it was in...

We couldn’t finish out January without noting that this month is the birthday of the paper cup. It was 103 years ago, January 1908, when Hugh Moore came up with the idea, in the interests of improving health. Up until...

Many of us are familiar with Southeast Asian coffee and may have tried a few from Sumatra, Thailand, Indochina, and even Vietnam. We might wonder where the Japanese coffees are, since the islands are in the same latitudes as Hawaii...

Iced Coffee is the newest cold weather trend. You heard that right. Cold weather, as in winter, is no barrier to enjoying freezing chilled coffee, which in summer is a welcome cooler. So just when you thought your favorite coffee...

Not all coffee cherries are alike. Oh, they look alike alright, but looks are only skin deep, as we say. Lurking inside 5% of those pretty red cherries is a different appearing bean. In fact, it’s a single bean that...

If your two loves are golf and coffee, then you’re going to love the newest in cafes that might be coming to a city near you. The latest golf rage in South Korea is being exported to North America starting...

Starbucks caused somewhat of a tempest in a coffeepot when the foremost coffee company worldwide announced a change to its third logo in forty years. It was said that part of the reasoning behind the change was expansion into Asian...

Location: Vietnam and Cambodia Storyteller: American businessman Plot: Businessman goes to Southeast Asia and decides to travel to his next destination over the roads rather than in the air. On the way, among other adventures, he gets attacked by a...

It might be a little late for helping with those post-New Year’s party hangovers, but a story posted by Dan Holmes this week uses rats to explain how to use coffee – or caffeine – to cure those day-after headaches....

A Philippine province has developed a program aimed at saving its coffee industry. The Adopt-a-Coffee-Farm program will hopefully insure continuous growth in coffee production. The program allows prospective investors to lease land from its owners for the purpose of growing...

Many things have started with coffee. Lots of great relationships started off with a cup of coffee; people have met each other while getting coffee; and many a business deal likely started in a discussion over a cup of coffee....

Parisi Artisan Coffee, one of ROASTe’s micro-roasters, announced plans this week to open their first coffee shop in Kansas City Missouri’s Union Station. Since 2006, they’ve been selling their coffee through local cafes and restaurants, and more recently, through ROASTe....

Hot coffee played a role in a robbery attempt again last Saturday. As reported in the Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor, the would-be robber first knocked on the apartment door before entering. The resident went to meet him, expecting a friend,...

The story won’t go away. Just when you thought everything had been said that could be said about the updating of the Starbucks logo, someone comes along and posts yet another wrinkle on the subject. On his website this past...

Lately it seems as if everything is getting smaller. We hear of nanoseconds, quarks, nano-molecules and quantum physics, all focusing on the smallest of objects. Specialty coffee now comes riding the crest of other small batch foods and beverages in...

United flight 940 from Chicago to Frankfort Germany got off on the wrong foot - or wing - last Monday. It seems that one of the three members of the cockpit crew was drinking coffee when some slight turbulence caused...

First it was coffee and books - bookstores combined with coffee shops. Now it’s bikes and coffee, not quite as natural a combo, as bikers don’t usually bike and sip at the same time. More people probably associate biking with...

You know a commodity must be big when the mob muscles in for a piece of the action. A recent New York Daily News article reported that over the past thirty years the Colombo crime family extorted hundreds of thousands...

Though we like to think of our coffee shop as a home away from home, and the other patrons sometimes become like family, we draw the line at sharing the family germs. As recently reported in the Seattle Times, “Dr....

Brian Jurgens and Renee Kloeblen are an inspiration as they daily demonstrate how to take hobbies and turn them into a career. They each took a life change and transformed it into gold – income - for both of them....