A Nice Cuppa

Candles and coffee - I have to say, it doesn’t seem like the most likely of pairs. Unless you’re Yankee Candle, and then along with the 5 billion other scents it is a completely logical pairing.
If you’ve ever shopped for candles then you’ve likely heard of Yankee Candle, and you already know - Yankee […]

You know how the old saying goes: bigger is better. And it???s fair to say that this is often true. For instance, in the case of airplane seats. Yet there seems to be a growing adoration these days for diminutive things. There has long been a love for mini bars, […]

Looking for a cool treat to help you beat the heat, something you can whip up quickly and easily? I came up with this coffee cooler while looking for a way to get my daily coffee fix and keep cool on these hot summer days. I used yogurt as the base instead of […]

In a study conducted by Dr. Robert W. Motl, director of the Exercise Neuroscience Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign findings show that caffeine reduced the pain experienced during moderate-intensity workout in some women. The study focused on the effects caffeine had on leg muscle pain of women while cycling. During […]

Earvin “Magic” Johnson, the NBA great sees magic in real estate and business projects focused on lower-income neighborhoods that are seeking revitalization, but that many other investors and businessmen shy away from.
One of those ventures for Magic Johnson, is a new Starbucks, which opened last Friday in Charlotte, NC amid a revitalization project […]

Whenever my parents visit me in New York, my mother and I branch off from my father for a day filled with shopping and eating. We rejoin him each evening for dinner where we try in earnest to eat, but aren???t very convincing. Though we???ve never revealed the secret behind our full bellies, […]

Matcha, green tea powder, is one of those magical ingredients that can wake up any standard dessert recipe and suddenly make it exotic and novel. Blogging bakers and cooks out there certainly know this secret, and there are scores of fantastic recipes illustrated with its brilliant green hue, like these from some of my favorites:
Keiko, […]

No, I didn’t leave my latte in the freezer. Okay, well I sort of did - I left my Starbucks Low Fat Latte ice cream in the freezer. You can bet it won’t stay there for long though, it’s that good.
In general, I’m not a big consumer of ice cream. […]

Before I start let me preface this by saying that I realize to many coffee drinkers instant coffee is in a category all by itself, to many it is a non-coffee. To some coffee drinkers if it isn’t brewed right here, right now they aren’t drinking it. Okay, I can accept that, to […]

CROUCHING BARISTA, HIDDEN LACTOSE (continued…)
Exterior - Bukittinggi, West Sumatra
Black and sporty, a bit arrogant. It glides up to the curbside and comes to an abrupt stop. Music blares from the inside even before the door is cracked. A well-dressed foot steps out and the camera pans up for a first look. […]