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Besides pointing out some healthful benefits of coffee, plus a few cautions, dietician Kathy Warwick has listed other common foods and beverages which provide caffeine. You may be getting more caffeine than you realized if you drink colas and eat...

I hope everyone had a good holiday, and one of the nice things about the holidays is getting that gift that you didn't think you didn't think you were going to get. While I didn't get an Elektra T1 espresso...

http://foter.com/img/photo/6/brushing-the-ladyfingers-with-coffee-mixture_l.jpg" class="foter-photo" style="display: block; width: 100%" /> Photo Credit: VancityAllie /FoterVancity Allie's Recipe My mom's been making this scrumptious ricotta torte for holidays ever since I was a kid. She's made little adjustments to it over the years, and every...

/files/Espressione-Squissita-CE4651-18-BAR.jpg" hspace="5" height="429" border="5" align="left" width="349" vspace="5" />I did not get this for Christmas. Now, let me be clear -- I didn't expect to get this for Christmas. Even at $199, it's way outside my kids' price range, and that's...

While it’s probably not likely that coffee will phase out tea drinking completely, it sure is giving the genteel beverage a good challenge. Think of the countries we used to associate with tea houses and the tea culture. Surely, but...

The T1 is here.  It is here!  The truck driver called me up and chatted about if the truck the machine was on would fit in my neighborhood’s puny streets – we decided it would not.   I met them...

Get the http://www.widgetbox.com/i/73ffcdd2-4cb5-49f9-8f5d-5794cfad9b8f" mce_href="http://www.widgetbox.com/i/73ffcdd2-4cb5-49f9-8f5d-5794cfad9b8f&quot... Creator Pro widget and many other http://www.widgetbox.com/" mce_href="http://www.widgetbox.com/">great free widgets at http://www.widgetbox.com" mce_href="http://www.widgetbox.com">Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (http://support.widgetbox.com/" mce_href="http://support.widgetbox.com/">More info) I posted an entry about coffee experiment recently. From the feedback, it seems that I am...

I've been drinking on of the component coffees of some of our roasts.  It's a Yirgachefe from Ethiopia.  It's a really nice coffee with a really full rich taste.  However, it's difficult now to identify provenence for them.  They use...

Over the past few weeks I have been making my way through a few bags of dark roasts between D'Arte's Natalazia, Velton's Twilight Blend and Mr Espresso Organic Neopolitan. I have been picking these because I have been getting coffees...

Coffee as a cancer fighter is in the news again, but this time it’s not so much the medical aspect of coffee’s anti-cancer heroism, but the doctors that are praising it that is newsworthy. The YOU Docs, Dr. Mehmet Oz...

Do you know the world record for the most coffee consumed by one person in seven hours? If you read 10 Odd Facts about Coffee you’d be able to shout back with 82 cups, the correct answer. Not only that,...

A few days ago I was able to pick up a few things from espressoparts.com that I have been wanting for a while, among those items were two portafilter baskets from their HQ line, a 14 G Ridged and Ridgeless....

Today, I went to a new coffee spot in town.  Actually, it was a new branch of an already established chain here in Baltimore.  They don't necessarily specialize in coffee, although they do employ Counter Culture-trained baristas.  One of these...

It's been a while since I've posted here and for a number of reasons.  Some were health related (off the coffee for a while) and some were work related (completely forgot I had a blog).  Anyway, my strange path back...

While sometimes you may have to look high and low for your cleaning brush, especially if you have little children that think everything is made for them, there are probably winners and losers among brushes for cleaning your espresso machine....

Less than half of this year’s Vietnamese coffee harvest has been picked and the farmers are unhappy. It’s not the coffee that’s causing their dissatisfaction, but the coffee prices. They consider them too low, so they’ve decided to hoard the...

Photo Credit: dongga BS /Foter Just how important is your coffee to you? Recently, Time Warner Cable asked 1,000 of its NYC subscribers about which things they'd be willing to give up forever. Their results included a finding that may...

I really enjoy seasonal blends, and no I am not talking about the latest seasonal blend made with beans that are being currently harvested. I am talking about blends that are made to be festive for the season, they just...