Brush up on some coffee history with this leaflet entitled “COFFEE.” It was published in 1938 by the Field Museum Of Natural History, Chicago and written by B. E. Dahlgren, the Chief Curator of the Department Of Botany at the time. The following is an excerpt from the book: The coffee tree is of African…
Brewing up enough coffee every day for even a few cups uses a lot of grounds. Most likely, most of those spent coffee grounds get thrown in the trash, or maybe even composted. But did you know that those used coffee grounds have alternative uses? Below are a couple of pointers to make you think twice before tossing those ground beans in the trash.
Muslims are to be allowed to drink the world’s most expensive coffee which happens to be extracted from the excrement of the Asian Palm Civet, a weasel-like mammal, reports the Jakarta Post. The Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) declared Tuesday that civet coffee (otherwise known as Kopi Luwak coffee) is allowed to be consumed by Muslims…
A small town is Saskatchewan is home to a 150,000 cup coffee pot. The town of Davidson, Saskatchewan, (pop. 1000) is known as a stopping place for those driving in Saskatchewan, along the province’s busiest highway. Currently, the Town of Davidson has the bragging rights to the largest coffee pot and cup in the world….
This fall, Canadians will be able to walk into Burger King and order a fresh cup of Seattle’s Best Coffee. The two companies announced plans this week to begin serving the Seattle’s Best brand at restaurants throughout Canada. Starbucks-owned Seattle’s Best prides itself on 40 years of serving quality coffee. Coffee is the number one…
From picking to roasting to the electricity for grinding them and boiling the water, a carbon off setting company from Canada has recently calculated that 400-gram bag of french roast coffee from Nicaragua produces 1,807-grams of carbon dioxide, the equivalent to driving 170 km in a mid size car. The final tally might not sound…
We have Tim Harford at Slate to thank for this one. It turns out that Starbucks ill serve you a better, stronger cappuccino if you want one, and they will charge you less for it. The drink in question is the elusive “short cappuccino”—at 8 ounces, a third smaller than the smallest size on the…
Perky Cups, the Aurora, Colorado coffee shop that became famous because of it’s bikini-adorned employees, was forced to close its doors recently. According to a local publication, the Aurora Sentinal, the building’s owners evicted the owner Jason Bernal for nonpayment of rent, and for failure to abide by the terms of his lease, including having…
On May 19, 2010 The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of approximately 900,000 GE 12-cup digital coffee makers sold exclusively at Walmart stores nationwide, after dozens of reports of overheating, smoking, burning and fires. According to the CPSC, Walmart has received reportedly received 83 complaints about the GE-branded coffee maker, including overheating, smoking,…
Starbucks announced today that it will be introducing 2 new cup sizes in the U.S. and Canada this fall. Called the Plenta and Micra these cup sizes were supposedly a result of some customer requests. From the Starbucks website: Derived from Italian word for plentiful or small, the Plenta™ delivers coffee lovers record amounts of…
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