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Mention imported artisanal foods in Kansas City Missouri and many locals will think of the Paris family. Known for their importing of specialty foods, they have one of the largest temperature-controlled green coffee storehouses in the US. Five years ago...

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...

http://www.roaste.com/files/teaser.png" title="Bernard Muneri" align="left" hspace="10" /> Meet Bernard Muneri. He hails from South Africa, has been in the coffee industry for 4 years, and has quickly climbed the ranks. He started his career in coffee at TriBeCa Coffee Roasters as...

While cleaning out our garage the other day my wife found a wonderful looking old aluminum grease straining can left behind along with some other trinkets collected and forgotten by the previous owner.  Thankfully after inspecting her find, I saved...

Have not blogged in a while. Time to start again!I did a variation of an experiment I did last year. This time I used different types of water to make iced coffee in a “slow” method. I used rain water...

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...

Easter: Renewal, Hospitality and Coffee Easter is coming this Sunday, so hopefully you have your coffees ready for the special meals, especially breakfast and brunch. This special day calls for special coffee, so here are some tips to inspire you:...

Weird coffee news Wednesday..... Tuesday police were called to a Grand Rapids office building after lunch because a caller reported a man with a gun had entered the building. They searched all floors of the building and failed to find...

It’s not really a secret. It has to be listed on the label, and the President just announced that Cuba will be supplementing the domestic coffee with this ingredient because of a dwindling coffee crop. AP reporter Andrea Rodriguez writes...

The most popular coffee news story of the season seems to be the one about how your DNA, your genes, cause you to crave coffee/caffeine or not to. It has been reported that a study of 47,000 Americans over 17...

If you were assigned to make a piece of clothing out of Starbucks coffee sleeves, what is your reaction? Do you immediately get a vision and start creating, or do you just go pour yourself another cup of brew? For...

Writers everywhere are popping up with their great coffee tip lists, and most of them are somewhat similar with overlapping hints. Occasionally one grabs the attention with a unique secret for great coffee. Katharine Shilcutt is an example of this...

That is just the right expression for local consumption in Guatemala. A boom of coffee, not only because Starbucks’s opened  in El Salvador, November 2010, and now in Guatemala since  March 19th., but becasue coffee houses started to adjust their...

The primary difference between wood-roasting and conventional roasting (gas or electric) lies in the speed at which the internal temperature of the bean itself rises i.e. how quickly the temperature of the air in the roaster is transferred to the...

It’s been demonized, outlawed, died for, warred against, prohibited by religious leaders, banned, globally traded, taxed, survived for centuries and brewed by all cultures, both blamed for disease and lauded as disease fighter. Coffee has had quite a history and...

It’s been said that coffee is the new wine. The two favorite beverages have been seen together lately, leading some to suspect they might have a thing going on.  Not since the ancient Celts of Galicia mixed wine and coffee...

It’s time to take a break from the WBC buzz and focus a bit of energy on the subject of coffee. After all, it’s hard to dispute the fact that coffee has taken on a cult-like following and can even...

I've sung the praises before of the vertiginous glories of cloth-filtered vacuum pots. The cloth allows a little bit of insolubles through, which really accentuates the aroma of the coffee and contributes to a lush mouth-feel.  However, I'm now an apostate...