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Inside The Barista Class
At that age, becoming a barista—as opposed to a waitress, or the girl serving popcorn at the multiplex—seemed like a good idea. In my budding process of cultural affiliation, I’d recognized the coffee shop as my spiritual home from an early age. This was 2006. Like I said, I was suburban. Something about a coffee shop felt intellectual.
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The truth about caffeine: Why we know so little about our favorite addictive drug
In a culture where we worry about unregulated chemicals and food additives, it’s shocking how little we know about one of the most common ones: caffeine. We spend a lot more time consuming the drug than we do thinking about it, says author Murray Carpenter. Meanwhile, none of the companies peddling it have been willing to talk about it. And the FDA, up until very recently, has been remiss in not regulating it.
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An Eye-Opening Look At The Calories In Your Starbucks Beverage
This Is How Your Brain Responds to Beer vs Coffee?
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Getting the biggest caffeine buzz for your buck
Not all coffee is created - or brewed - equally.Caffeine levels in coffee can vary sharply, which means it matters where you go if you are looking for a pick-me-up.
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Breakfast costing more as U.S. food prices rise
Breakfast is now being served with a side of sticker shock. The price of bacon is surging and the cost of other morning staples, like coffee and orange juice, is set to rise because of global supply problems, from drought in Brazil to disease on U.S. pig farms.
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The world’s growing love affair with the most wasteful form of coffee there is
Coffee pods are really popular right now. Sales of single-serve coffee—the kind first popularized in the US by Keurig, and widely known as K-cups—have more than tripled since 2011, MarketWatch reported in November. As of a year ago, 13% of Americans drank a coffee made in a single-cup brewer each day, according to a survey by the National Coffee Association. K-Cups alone now account for more than a quarter of the US market for ground coffee.
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31 Beautiful, Simple Ways to Drink Your Coffee Around the World
While the standard espresso drinks in the States consist of a macchiato, cappuccino, red eye, latte, etc., when you peek around the corner at how the rest of the world takes their coffee, you’ll be impressed at the variety. In Italy, Espresso Romano consists of a lemon slice dropped in an espresso. In Austria, a Wiener Melange layers a cup of espresso, an egg yolk, brown sugar and whipped cream. In Spain, honey gets topped with an espresso, steamed milk and cinnamon.
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Coffee just got too expensive for Starbucks
It’s true. Coffee giant Starbucks has been taking a break from buying beans over the last month, as coffee prices continue to log ridiculous gains. The Wall Street Journal reports (paywall) that the coffee giant has already locked in prices for all of this fiscal year and some of next fiscal year. But prices are up roughly 90% for Arabica beans this year, thanks to a drought in the world’s biggest supplier country, Brazil.
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This Woman Cooks Everything in a Coffee Maker
The Swedish website Kaffekokarkokboken documents extreme minimalist cuisine.
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Sexagintuple Vanilla Bean Mocha Frappuccino, the most expensive coffee
The Sexagintuple Vanilla Bean Mocha Frappuccino contains 60 shots of Starbucks espresso, costing $55 (£32) and ordered in Texas, is said to be most expensive coffee ever.
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The Best Iced Latte in America?
If coffee were a religion, Charles Babinski and Kyle Glanville would be two of its high priests.
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Cheap Coffee Reviewed By A Coffee Expert
Do you agree with our expert?
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Only In North Dakota: Coffee Shop With No Employees Works On The Honor System
North Dakotans are hearing a lot these days about how our state is changing. And to be sure, there are a lot of changes, but most of what we hear about is the negative.
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How coffee protects against Parkinson's
A specific genetic variation discovered by researchers at Linköping University in Sweden protects against Parkinson's Disease – especially for those who drink a lot of coffee.
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Why Is Iced Coffee Getting So Ridiculously Expensive?
Summer 2014 has brought many troubling things to New Yorkers, from rats in wraps, and sharks near the beach. But one of the most upsetting first world problems we struggle with here has been the dramatic rise in iced coffee prices. Counting up your caffeine-related receipts can be more depressing than counting up your booze-related ones. That's why we don't count receipts!
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Can the Next Starbucks Actually Sell Good Coffee?
At its cafes, Blue Bottle might make one of the best iced-coffee drinks in America. But are artisan businesses doomed to fail when they try going mainstream?
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The Future of Iced Coffee
At its cafes, Blue Bottle might make one of the best iced-coffee drinks in America. But are artisan businesses doomed to fail when they try going mainstream?
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Study: More coffee may prevent your ears from ringing | The Rundown | PBS NewsHour
Drinking coffee may prevent tinnitus, or chronic ringing of the ears, according to new research from Brigham and Women’s hospital in Boston. Doctors previously thought that people with tinnitus should give up drinking coffee, in fear that caffeine may increase … Continue reading →
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Coffee may help prevent Tinnitus, a ringing sound in your ears: Study
Coffee drinkers have another reason to reason and drink up. A new study found that coffee may be good for your ears.
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Nearly 400 people 'pay it forward' at St. Petersburg Starbucks
The acts of kindness began at 7 a.m. Wednesday with a woman, her iced coffee and a stranger's caramel macchiato.
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