All things coffee
Don’t wait for Santa to place you on the “nice list” for Starbucks gift cards or things on your wish list. We must admit…we've been using Swagbucks to get free Starbucks coffee (absolutely 100% free) over the past six months in New York City. …
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Most of us may not have the opportunity to visit all the top coffee houses in Europe or visit the coffee plantations in Brazil, but we can bake our very own coffee cakes just like those served in Vienna or Venice in our own kitchen, using recipes in books written by coffee …
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Throughout the history of coffee, great artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers have gravitated to the coffeehouses. Their creative expression, briefly sampled here, reflects coffee's gift of inspiration. (Source: Starbucks Passion for Coffee) Coffee has inspired and been …
Despite what most health experts say about the negative effects of drinking coffee when flying, we the coffee lovers, love to indulge in coffee when we fly. If you are like us, chances are you are dead tired by the time you arrive at your assigned seat. Either from lack of sleep …
Kaikoura is located about 113 miles north of Christchurch and was once a whaling station in South Island, New Zealand. This coastal town is framed by snow-peaked mountains, rugged coastlines and black beaches. Kaikoura's main industry in the mid-1800s was hunting sperm whales …
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While Australian and Kiwi coffee connoisseurs debate over who invented the flat white, just like they debate about lamingtons and pavlovas, our friends in New Zealand are oblivious to the subject. Instead, they are upping their coffee drinking habit, not with the flat whites, …
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What is it that elevates a simple cup of coffee to that exceptional, memorable and comforting cup of Joe when you travel in a foreign country? The quality of the beans, of course, is important, but what else? Would you add the ambiance, the cup, the aroma, the dessert that comes …
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In Bali, coffee harvesters do not scour forest floors to look for prized civet coffee, locally known as kopi luwak. You won’t find free roaming civets pooping coffee beans. In fact, caged civets produce kopi luwak in Bali. …
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Every coffee cup tells a story. Imagine the person who used it before you did. She may be a stay-at-home-mom spending time with friends drinking coffee and feeding her baby at the same time. Or a young executive drinking coffee from that same mug and writing down thoughts to tell …
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At the Café Aquila de Oro on Benalcazar Street in Quito, proprietor Teresa Vizueta came out from the kitchen with a smile and asked if we needed help. Gray-haired and bespectacled Teresa seemed to be able to find everything even if you were to blindfold her. The place …
