Coffee shops are trying a new form of coffee making on their customers with the use of SmartCup Xpress, a revolutionary way to get your pick-me-up on the go with a gourmet and robust flavor. One store in New York City, BKoffie, uses the Xpress cups to sell their delicious coffee from African beans. The [...]
If you are a woman who drinks at least two and a half cups of coffee a day there is good news for you from the Mayo Clinic. You could be decreasing your risk of getting uterine cancer. Their study involved 20,000 women and compared those who drank two and a half cups of coffee [...]
No other information regarding the drowned Cobb county police officer, other than the fact that alcohol was involved. As the story goes, however, nobody is sure how intoxicated Sgt. Brent Stephens was when the 22-foot “shore boat” collided with a bouy, flinging him into the dark waters late Thursday evening. Spokeswoman for the Department of [...]
The recent release of the Law Commission‘s paper ‘Alcohol in Our Lives: Curbing the Harm,’ received a warm welcome from The New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) as they hope it will help control the problem of excessive alcohol consumption that pervades throughout the country. Dr. Peter Foley, the Chair to the NZMA, accentuated the serious [...]
Living in the area of the United States known as the “salad bowl” I am used to eating foods that are grown locally and had never seen food from outside of the states offered in the grocery store. Lately all I have seen is food from other countries and I am not too comfortable about [...]
Instinctively people are driven to save money wherever they can, but does this apply to what we eat? Typically organic produce is much more expensive to buy. What are the differences between organic and conventionally grown fruits and vegetables and why is organic more expensive? Organic refers to the way the produce is grown and [...]
Do you find yourself reading your fruit lately, curious to know where their place of origin might be? They can come from far away lands, do you ever wonder why? I do. Cheaper labor costs overseas are the primary reason coupled with the ability to supply off-season produce any time of the year. I [...]
How one drinks their cup of Joe is a matter of taste, choice, or habit. Does it really matter what kind of cup you choose to drink your coffee from? The coffee cup comes in many shapes and sizes, we all have our favorites. Most of us have a travel mug for the commute, [...]
Born to a Hungarian-Italian chocolate maker Francesco Illy, Ernesto was destined to perfect the cup of coffee. Francesco, an officer in WWI, came to Italy and created the famous Illy brand in 1933. Ernesto majored in Chemistry at the University of Bologna and spent his entire life creating the perfect cup of coffee for [...]
February 18, 2010 – Lavazza is synonymous with great Italian coffee; Emilio Lavazza entered the family business founded by his grandfather in 1955. In 1971 Mr. Lavazza became CEO of Luigi Lavazza SpA. Starting out delivering coffee door-to-door to restaurants around Turin where his grandfather ran a grocery store in 1895, he took over [...]
