A Nice Cuppa

Halloween is a holiday about having fun, getting scared and eating lots of candy. There’s no way around it - Halloween is a huge money maker for the candy industry. But there are other areas of the food industry stepping up their product development and marketing in hopes they will get in on […]

I may have heard it all now. A couple in the UK recently tied the knot and headed straight for Starbucks, where they were greeted by smiling baristas. They shared the caffeinated reception with 30 friends and family members in a roped-off area of the cafe. I suppose the story is pretty […]

Each fall fans of the Pumpkin Spice Latte cheer as Starbucks re-introduces it to their lineup. In addition, this year Starbucks is adding the Maple Macchiato to its fall menu. If you live in Canada and certain parts of the US, mainly the North East, you just might have already had a chance […]

I recently purchased a book on tastings. As a food writer, I’m always on the look out for ways to refine my sense of taste and to better turn the flavors on my tongue into words that my readers can relate to. Simply saying “it tastes good” really doesn’t cut it. So, […]

According to a recent article on the “Scientific American” website, a new study shows that cola consumption can be linked to weaker bones in women. The study conducted by Dr. Katherine L. Tucker of Tufts University in Boston, was made up of more than 2,500 adults, 1,413 women and 1,125 men, and found that […]

Some records are made to be broken. And Sunday in Nagoya, Japan a lotta folks just broke one. Thousands of people volunteered to take part in a tea ceremony that would break the world record for simultaneous tea-drinking.
Sunday’s ceremony makes it’s way into the record books, sweeping aside the […]

Coca-Cola is no stranger to the coffee business, having already introduced us to Coke Blak, a bottled soft drink of cola infused with coffee. But, the company is going in a radical direction with their new line of products. Coke has recently launched a new brand called Far Coast, which is the soft-drink […]

Once upon a time, all the diet sodas in all the land were chock full of saccharine, and all the diet soda drinkers were oblivious to any broken, skittish lab rats strung out in testing facilities with ugly malignancies of all sorts of horridness, spawned from that very same saccharine.
But the saying goes, ???Ignorance is […]

Browsing the Adagio Teas website I found the coolest little teapot. The Globo glass teapot. It’s a 30 oz/4 cup glass teapot. I was drawn to the teapot because it’s so incredibly stylish. I just love it! The Globo Teapot is the recipient of the prestegious IF design award, but […]

Can we say slow down? Starbucks just keeps growing and growing, with no end in sight. At the company’s recent analyst meeting Martin Coles, president of Starbucks Coffee International, announced that the company has plans to open its first stores in Russia, and Brazil, along with a store on the continent of African. […]