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So, not sure if this should be a blog or a rant, but something lately has been bothering me. Since I live in Los Angeles, which seems to be a horrible city for coffee (believe it or not) I am...

In a Montreal Gazette post of November 20, writer Irene Seiberling asks why consumers will wait in lengthy lines or pay hefty sums for a specialty coffee such as a Starbucks latte. In her answer, Seiberling ascribes such behavior to...

A recent piece in the Sun.co.uk, a British news site, among other websites, covered the story of the problems coffee shops in the Netherlands are having with pot sales to tourists. The report stated that although marijuana is technically illegal...

Frappé Friday- Unusual Coffee News Minneapolis news station KSTP ran a story about a purse snatcher who tried to grab a woman’s purse. She threw hot coffee in his face and he took off running. A delivery man who happened...

A report on the Beverage Daily website described some of the discussion at Bosch's third Coffee Symposium held this week in Germany. In attendance were more than seventy international customers and coffee industry representatives and experts. The focus was on...

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Time.com recently reported that coffee drinking is not catching on among the 18-24 yr-old crowd, with only a little over one in four enjoying the brew. Author Janet Morrissey went on to describe the love affair of many in this...

Italy, France, Vienna….If you feel that surfing through ROASTe.com is a little like taking a tour of regions throughout the world, but you never were given the map - or, that you recognize the names of places but can’t quite...

There are some sections of the country where every office building has its own coffee shop or at least a kiosk or espresso cart. Rare is the office that doesn’t have a pot brewing during the day. Many offices even...

Some good things take time. Though coffee was “discovered” in Ethiopia in the sixth century and has been grown in Vietnam and other Asian countries, it didn’t take off in China until recently. Within the last decade it has made...

Have you ever had so nasty a cold that even coffee doesn't taste good?  Sad as it is for me to type those words, I think that is where I am right now.  My morning cup today is spiced with...

/files/u3017/beanscoop.jpg" vspace="1" width="179" align="left" height="146" hspace="1" /> "Coffee roasting," as the saying goes, "is part art and part science." The coffee bean is, after all, an organism pried from the soil, dried, shipped, and poured into the numerous roasting mechanisms...

If you've ever felt guilty about your coffee indulgence, there is good news. Coffee and the GRIN2A gene might work together to help fend off Parkinson’s disease. Estimated to be present in 25% of the population, the gene and coffee...

In college my coffee-making went something like this: put coffee into a mesh basket and put the basket into a Pyrex measuring cup. Pour hot water over that. Wait. Then remove the basket-of-grounds and filter the liquid through paper. Really...

If you’re on the Big Island of Hawaii in a future November, you might want to attend the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival and its Gevalia Kona Coffee Cupping Competition. Held this week, in this year’s event, sixty coffees from sixty...

For those of you who love to recycle and hate to throw anything away, Networx contributor Shira Beth has posted a new way of recycling coffee grounds. She suggests that tossing them in the fireplace before cleaning out the ashes...

Good water, the right grind and a clean machine top Austrian barista Franz Grünwald’s advice for making the perfect cup. In a recent article for Cityscape Restoranto, Lana Hall reported on the advice of the world champion barista and “certified...

Clarke Bowling of NYDailyNews.com has been counting calories this month. Not just any calories, but those to be found in the wonderfully creative, pretty, decadent and sweet offerings from the coffee house chains like Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts, as first...

An article by Denise Mann in WebMDHealth News reported on a study in November’s Neurology that showed that stroke risk temporarily increases the first hour after drinking coffee but reverses itself within two hours. The risk also seems to apply...

The Vietnamese government has decided on annually stockpiling thousands of tons of coffee beans to better control the price of their coffee. This year the country’s coffee industry plans to hold back 500,000 tons for six months. Exporters are recommending...

As in the case of all crops, yearly weather changes cause ups and downs in the production yields. Location is everything in coffee as in most things in life. We’re soon to experience a down year: for the year 2011-2012,...