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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...

Ask Joan Endyke what she thinks about the new two-ounce caffeine-dense energy drinks and she’ll give you a short lesson in nutrition. A registered dietitian with a master’s degree in food and nutrition, Joan knows her stuff. In an article...

Actually, author Marisa Nadoluy stated that “any idiot can brew perfect coffee with the right stuff.” She then goes on to explain just what the “right stuff” is: good beans and good tools. In her case, she starts out with...

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Maybe you’ve read about the new threat to your health related to drinking brewed beverages. Readers of an Oklahoma online news source were informed this week that the tea bags and coffee filters they use to brew their favorite hot...

The upgrading of edibles is now being compared to the pattern established by coffee. As coffee was Folgers to most Americans before it became an artisan, specialty gourmet item, chocolate is now following suit. Both cocoa and coffee beans have...

Do you have a green thumb? If so, and if you live within the latitudes between 28 degrees north and 30 degrees south of the equator, you can grow a coffee plant or two in your yard. Noris Ledesma of...

The city of Prague, Czech Republic, is known for its culture - many fine museums being part of that classical cultural world. So a coffee museum, which is probably one of the world’s only such museums, just sounds somewhat out...

/files/u3017/falls.png" align="texttop" height="405" width="560" /> Guatemala is a land with unlimited potential and a hardy population. Sugar cane, rubber trees, plantains, and coffee all grace the fertile soil and highlands in this Central American country. The coffee here is prized...

This week it was reported that coffee kingpin Starbucks confirmed its interest in entering the single serve coffee market. Chicago Tribune writer Emily Bryson York predicted that this move by the coffee retailing leader would give a big push to...

Some two-odd years ago, I was introduced to Dennis McQuoid via coffee god Andrew Hetzel of Cafemakers.  He had begun planning his dream café and wanted some consultants to help him out.  On Friday, January 27, 2011, Dennis opened Beach...

New research has just been reported this week on coffee rings, those messy brown circles left on your table or coaster by drips from your cup. Now scientists have replicated them to find a nanoscale low-cost method of diagnosing illness....

I found one of these Zelco Brisk Brew single cup coffeemakers at a decent price still in the original box with an unwrapped cup and unopened instructions - who needs instructions anyway - it's 240v in the US and 110v...

A Mountain View California photographer, Aaron Blumenshine, last week documented a robot on a scone-procurement mission at a local coffee shop. Commercially known as an Anybot, the robot rolled down the sidewalk and into the shop, waited in line like...

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Nutrition Action Health Letter’s cover story for Jan./Feb. 2011 highlights unexpected and surprising health findings from the last 40 years, on the occasion of the 40th birthday of the journal’s sponsor, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)....

Well, you probably saw this one coming. In its modern all-glass form, the Chemex is coolly insubstantial. It's light and transparent and non-porous. Self-less, if you'll indulge me. Chemex doesn't care to distinguish itself; it would rather distinguish the coffee...

As temperatures go south, so do the birds, finding coffee plantations a welcome respite. Shade-grown coffee is in the news again. This week Jim Williams wrote a report on a Maryland birder’s visit to Guatemalan coffee plantations where coffee plants...

Called a “Caffeine Edible”, the latest product to enable your hurried mornings is the “Hyper-Caffeinated Coffee-Flavored Marshmallow”. Hmmm, it takes more time to say it than to just fix your coffee. But it’s being marketed as a tasty way to...