A Nice Cuppa

Coffee, tea and chai…in chocolate, oh my!
With the distinctive design and fabulous flavors, retro makes more than a come back in Coco-luxe’s distinctive Green Box, full of afternoon delights.
Enjoy Mocha (coffee infused cream wixed with dark and milk chocolate), Chai (dark chocolate ganache with spices) and Green Tea (honey and green tea infused white ganache) […]

The wind finally howls outside and you realize your most vital appendages–your fingers–have gone numb. The solution? Hot cocoa, of course. However, perhaps by now your trans fat fear (coupled with a New Year’s resolution?) has encompassed the entire pantry. No longer can you pull a shiny foil packet of liquid […]

I am inspired by coffee cups. I have several different ones that remind me of a past vacation or a certain person. I like to select my coffee or tea cup each morning based on my mood. Last year I read Living Out Loud: Activities to Fuel a Creative Life by Keri Smith. It has […]

Bigelow’s Charleston Tea Plantation is America’s only working tea plantation. Beginning this year a new tour will be offered which will allow guests to travel throughout the plantation and see the thousands of historic tea bushes. On their ride, guests will be educated in how tea is planted, grown, nurtured and harvested. In addition to […]

“Black Gold” may be coming to PBS, but you can have it anytime with a great new product (getting lots of attention), Java Juice Extract.
Java Juice Extract is 100% organic, fair-trade, shade-grown, and kosher liquid coffee extract made from Arabica Coffee beans.
This stuff is great, you rip it, add water and then sip it.
For the […]

PBS has announced they will air the independent film Black Gold about the $80 billion global coffee industry this Spring. Currently screening at select theaters, Black Gold has won awards at several independent film festivals. The film is known to be a controversial expose about the devastating effects of […]

If my memory serves me correctly, caffeine is considered to be the most widely used, non-prescription drug in the world. In my own personal coffee world, the last 20 years have brought major changes to my caffeine consumption, mostly for the better. As a teenager, my coffee odyssey began as a way of socializing. With […]

If you’re like me and have a hard time with your dual devotion to both coffee and tea, you’ll be happy to hear about something that marries the two. PixieMaté Dark Roast Maté is the mysterious organic Yerba Maté in the form of a teabag with the aroma of French Roast. The people at Pixie […]

Buddhist monks brought the first seeds of the tea plant to Japan from China in the eighth century A.D. after discovering that it kept them from falling asleep during meditation. Compressed tea became a form of currency in Asia by the 10th century. It wasn’t until the early 1600s that Dutch traders brought tea to […]

When I was single, I hated Valentine’s Day. Nothing could smack me over the head more about being alone than the weeks leading up to the biggest Hallmark holiday of the year. But now that I am married, I still hate it. It’s like a mentality that you should set one day a year aside […]