Archive for November, 2005

Two Hours of Joint Solitude Solitude in a Cafe? Chris

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Two Hours of Joint Solitude
Two Hours of Joint Solitude

Solitude in a Cafe? Chris Pluger offers this short essay of an exploration of the reasons why we go to cafes - even if it is to "be alone".
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Library coffee bar plan still on the back burner (Rapid City Journal)
RAPID CITY — Though the process is taking longer than anticipated, the director of the Rapid City Public Library is optimistic that the library will eventually have a coffee bar.

What Specialty Coffee can learn from Wine Shanna Germain researches

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

What Specialty Coffee can learn from Wine
What Specialty Coffee can learn from Wine

Shanna Germain researches the wine model for ways to advance the Specialty Coffee movement. A reprint from Roast Magazine.
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Sans Caffeine
Life without caffeine.

SERBC Barista Competition 2005
SERBC Barista Competition 2005

Dan Kehn reports from the South East Regional Barista Competition for 2005, with photos from Jay Caragay to sate your appetite!
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Gadgets for the Dorm Room
Don’t settle for cafeteria coffee while living at school. Depending on the rules of your dorm, you should be able to have some basic gadgets in your room that will allow you to brew up fresh coffee every morning. You…

Coffee on the Road - Amherst, MA Leaving Columbus for

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Coffee on the Road - Amherst, MA
Leaving Columbus for Amherst, our author feared losing the great the coffee houses he was used to. Would Amherst be Caffeine City?

Cornell and Nestle publish DNA sequences of coffee (News 10 Now)
You can get it at the gas station, fast food restaurants, or at the office.

Building a Chaff Collector
Using the Melitta coffee roaster chaff collector for other popper based coffee roasters.

Autumn-Holiday Coffee
Holiday coffee recipe.

Junior laureate fills coffee concert opening (St. Petersburg Times) Violinist

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

Junior laureate fills coffee concert opening (St. Petersburg Times)
Violinist Elena Urioste, the soloist with the Florida Orchestra in Thursday’s coffee concert, is the junior first-place laureate of the 2003 Sphinx Competition, an innovative program that aids the careers of young African-American and Latino string players.

Coffee! Or, my love affair with the java bean
When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is sniff the air, hoping to catch a whiff of the coffee that brewed itself for me ten minutes before I woke up.

Gadgets for the Dorm Room Don’t settle for cafeteria coffee

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

Gadgets for the Dorm Room
Don’t settle for cafeteria coffee while living at school. Depending on the rules of your dorm, you should be able to have some basic gadgets in your room that will allow you to brew up fresh coffee every morning. You…

‘Idol’ finalist Huff believes in ‘Miracles’ (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Sitting in a Nashville coffee shop on a Friday afternoon, a mixture of emotions plays across George Huff’s face.

Man injured after explosion in coffee warehouse (News 10 Now)

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Man injured after explosion in coffee warehouse (News 10 Now)
A maintenance man is recovering from burn injuries he got while repairing a furnace. It happened at the Paul deLima Coffee warehouse on Pardee Road.

Roast Your Own Beans
There are a growing number of enthusiasts who are roasting their own coffee beans and enjoying the benefits of truly fresh coffee at about one-third to one half the price of beans from your local coffee shop.

Sweet news for coffee growers (Miami Herald)
Coffee plantations in Mexico and Central America probably didn’t sustain as much damage as first reported during storms last month, according to Sucres et Denres SA, a Paris-based commodities broker.

Health Benefits of Herbal Teas With cold winter weather almost

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Health Benefits of Herbal Teas
With cold winter weather almost here, it’s a perfect time to experiment with some new herbal teas to help boost your health. Here is a list of many common herbs used in tea, with a breakdown of their basic health-related…

Health Benefits of Herbal Teas With cold winter weather almost

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Health Benefits of Herbal Teas
With cold winter weather almost here, it’s a perfect time to experiment with some new herbal teas to help boost your health. Here is a list of many common herbs used in tea, with a breakdown of their basic health-related…

Top Fully Automatic Espresso Machines
A fully automatic espresso machine has an integrated grinder, and will grind just the right amount of coffee for the perfect shot each time. Talk about fresh, and still easy to use. Even with the grinder, you can usually make…

Autumn-Holiday Coffee Holiday coffee recipe. Caphe Phin Tutorial Vietnamese coffee

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

Autumn-Holiday Coffee
Holiday coffee recipe.

Caphe Phin Tutorial
Vietnamese coffee is surprisingly good. The best preperation I found while visiting was this remarkably simple drip filter made of stainless steel.

Agri dep’t wants foreign investors for coffee, rubber (Sun Star)
KORONADAL CITY — The Department of Agriculture is rolling the red carpet for foreign firms who are willing to invest in the development of rubber and coffee in Mindanao.

Couple switches from cell phones to selling coffee (The Southern Illinoisan)
CARBONDALE - From selling cellular phones to serving up lattes, one local couple’s career switch has resulted in a new coffee shop to Carbondale.

KitchenAid ProLine Grinder First Look CoffeeGeek takes a first look

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

KitchenAid ProLine Grinder First Look
KitchenAid ProLine Grinder First Look

CoffeeGeek takes a first look at the all metal, seriously built "ProLine" offering in the grinder category from KitchenAid
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George Howell Interview, Pt. 1
George Howell Interview, Pt. 1

The transcript from our first of two interviews with George Howell, of Terroir Coffee, in which we talk about Coffee Connection, the Boston Coffee scene, and Starbucks.
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