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Posted in coffee, environment on Dec 21st, 2008
From EurekAlert: Waste coffee grounds offer new source of biodiesel fuel. Researchers in Nevada are reporting that waste coffee grounds can provide a cheap, abundant, and environmentally friendly source of biodiesel fuel for powering cars and trucks. [continue]. See? Espresso can power more than just my mouth.
From the Globe and Mail: The buzz over caffeine: It can help your workout. THE QUESTION Will drinking coffee help or hinder my workout? THE ANSWER Until 2004, caffeine was a banned substance for elite athletes, who could test positive if they drank as few as three cups of strong coffee. That, one would assume, [...]
This is the best news I’ve heard today. From the CBC: Coffee drinking not harmful and may help against heart disease: study. Drinking copious amounts of coffee is not harmful to your health, and particularly if you’re a woman, may actually protect you from heart disease, new research suggests. Researchers from Harvard School of Public [...]
Posted in coffee on Apr 27th, 2008
We would never have bought an inexpensive espresso machine, because we’re serious about our coffee, and we though you’d need an expensive machine to make a really good shot. But surprise: a cheap machine came as a gift from a relative. Now that we’ve perfected our technique, our home-made espresso is awesome! We’ve got flavour, [...]
Posted in coffee, strange stuff on Feb 7th, 2008
From Ananova: Praying for a cuppa. The power of prayer is all it takes to relax with a drink at a newly opened Croatian cafe. Customers at the Jedro coffee shop in Zagreb are asked to say a certain number of prayers in return for their drinks. The most expensive beverage is a Coca-Cola which [...]
Posted in coffee on Jan 23rd, 2008
From the New York Times: At Last, a $20,000 Cup of Coffee. With its brass-trimmed halogen heating elements, glass globes and bamboo paddles, the new contraption that is to begin making coffee this week at the Blue Bottle Café here looks like a machine from a Jules Verne novel, a 19th-century vision of the future. [...]
Posted in coffee on Mar 20th, 2007
The National Geographic’s coffee pages contain a few interesting things: legends page with fascinating historical tidbits, a map of coffee-producing nations , and their The Bonanza Bean article. From the latter, here is a bit of weirdness for you: The Japanese gentlemen buried me up to the chin in a shallow grave and left me [...]