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Corporate Coffee Culture

If you’re in the office, you’ll be around coffee. It provides stimulation for staff in the morning and pick-ups throughout the day. It’s also on hand for all kinds of social situations, whether they are informal chats, lunch breaks, or business meetings. Unless you’re lucky, however, office coffee is probably not your favorite. Not to worry! Some simple changes can …

Coffee and Islam

Here is an interesting piece on coffee and Islam. “I am a coffee freak. I do not know how to function properly without a large cup of joe each morning. During the month of Ramadan, however, I cannot have my cup of coffee until after sunset. This made the fast particularly difficult for me this past year…”   Read more at: …

Coffee Antioxidants

Longer live through coffee drinking? Read on… “…there is a longstanding belief that long term consumption of coffee is in some nebulous way “bad”. This is despite coffee being packed with the sorts of antioxidants you would pay good money for at the health food store.”   Read more at: http://theconversation.edu.au/longer-life-through-coffee-drinking-7864  

Top Tier Coffee Beans

What is gourmet coffee – besides “Café Altura coffee!” there are others answers. “… truth be known gourmet coffee is actually made from top tier coffee beans that are plucked from the Arabica Coffea plant, commonly found at the high altitude of about 3,000 feet. This altitude makes for the perfect climate meaning that the soil is in the best …

Coffee Humor

Let’s have a little fun with the “Death by Caffeine” calculator. Don’t worry – you’re not in much danger. It would take almost 85 cups of drip coffee in my stomach at one time to kill me – obviously impossibility. Give it a whirl! “How much of your favorite energy drink, soda, or caffeinated food would it take to kill …

Coffee and Dehydration

Does coffee drinking lead to dehydration? Find out! “We have all heard the popular advice that we should drink at least eight glasses of water a day, so it may be a surprise that this is more myth than fact… Drinks like soft drink, fruit juice, tea and coffee, milk, and foods like fruit, yoghurt, soups, and stews all have …

History of Espresso

Learn how the espresso machine evolved from 1901 to the present! “Espresso originated in Italy. In fact, the word espresso is the Italian word for fast. Espresso is a drink that results from forcing water through finely ground coffee resulting in a full extraction of coffee flavor. This result was not always easy to attain, however, as espresso machines have …

Learn About Coffee

Does coffee help you retain memories? Does dark roast contain more coffee than light roast? Can coffee help you with a hangover? Click through to find out! “I write about coffee so I read and hear about coffee every day. There are many negative things about coffee but also good things at the same time. Also there are things that …

Coffee Apps

Apps for Coffee Lovers! Click to see which one you need. “You love coffee. You love to drink it. You’re a connoisseur, you buy the best, you brew the best. You want to know more about your coffee, the history of coffee, the subtleties, how to brew it and create your favorite coffee beverages. You think about coffee even when …

Coffee Artists

Painting with coffee – neat! “The Coffee Artists™ are Angel Sarkela-Saur and Andrew Saur, and they have been painting with coffee for over a decade. Together, they developed a process and technique of painting with coffee. People have been using coffee as washes for sketches and other shading for some time, but this revolutionary process used to gain very dark …