A Nice Cuppa

I am an impulse shopper. I had already filled up my online shopping cart with plenty of beans to try from Burman Coffee Traders, when the Rwandan co-op beans caught my eye. After a bit of research, I decided that another pound of green beans wasn’t going to hurt (I certainly wasn’t going to not […]

There are lots of coffee shops to make you feel trendy, cool, indie, underground, and otherwise hip. Maybe they have murals on the walls, or local art, or freakishly named coffee flavors. Maybe they do that thing with the steamed milk to make their cappucinos swirly. La Colombe achieves the ultimate in […]

Technology is amazing, and no more amazing than what can be developed that might look to make your life a whole lot easier. Take for instance, the commercial that shows our poor haggard housewife attempting to mash a whole mountain of potatoes; you know what she looks like….hair straggling over her flushed, overworked face, eyes […]

Take two all American boys from Long Island, New York add a trip to Europe and steep; the end result is Subtle Tea. A terrific tea bar located on Madison Avenue at East 30th Street, Subtle Tea serves up delicious loose leaf teas to go. Customers choose their pleasure from a vast […]

Visit any Dunkin’ Donuts this Wenesday, March 21st and you can receive a free 16 oz. cup of Dunkin’ Donuts’ premium iced coffee. Free Iced Coffee Day will last for 24 hours and is in celebration of the first day of Spring.
“We look forward to treating everyone to a free cup of our delicious, freshly […]

It’s about 2 am, you’re on your last ten pages of Milton, and you’re staring at the bottom of an empty coffee mug. Your throat scratches and your stomach grumbles…but your mattress is calling. Decaf is good enough. But delicious decaf? Much better.
There are lots of decaf coffees out there, and […]

Oriignally published on Well Fed on the Town by Jennifer Novic.
Before you head back to Vancouver (or British Columbia), Canada, and are in the United States on the I-5 in Washington State, there are several coffee stands you may be tempted to try out. Some are easy to spot off of the freeway while others […]

Starbucks is hosting its annual Coffee Break on Thursday, March 15. Customers at Starbucks stores across the U.S. and Canada a FREE Tall (12 ounce) coffee between 10 am to noon local time. New this year, Coffee Break is expanding outside US borders with events being held in Australia and Asia as well.
To get […]

The Tea Spot is an innovator in steeping ware for tea, in addition to having some really fresh blends of loose-leaf tea.
One of my current must-have kitchen accessories is The Tea Spot Steepin’ Cup. It is a great little device that has an infuser for loose-leaf tea that you simply pour hot water into and […]

A European café sits in disguise in a small corner of upstate New York. At least that’s what I think when stepping in. It reminds me of a café I visited in Vienna, or was it Paris? In this case the café is Harney & Sons Tea Lounge located just off Main […]