A Nice Cuppa

Risa Provincio is a successful event planner in the San Clemente, California area, and has orchestrated many successful weddings, baby showers, and even tea parties. In a recent issue of Tea Time magazine, she shared her “five musts to remember” when planning your next tea party fete.
Five Musts to Remember
1.  Ensure guests’ comfort.  If the tea […]

Want to immerse yourself in the history and culture of tea?  Then you might want to attend this upcoming event in Scottsdale, Arizona.  Tea 101: Introduction to Tea will share “the nuances of different tea varieties, teach you how to brew the perfect cup” and share more basics in this upcoming tea class.  It will […]

When I first saw this news story, I skimmed it quickly and thought they were adding breakfast sandwiches to the product offerings at Starbucks, but it turns out they’re doing exactly the opposite.  They’re nixing them.  Either I just don’t get to my Starbucks early enough in the morning, or they never carried them, because […]

Whether you want coffeehouse culture, the latest tea craze or anything in between, it’s all covered in this caffeinated blog. If it has caffeine, the buzz is on A Nice Cuppa.  We have also recently expanded the focus of A Nice Cuppa to include all non-alcoholic drinks, so come review your favorite juices and energy […]

I am very particular about hot drinks.  More to the point, I don’t drink them.  Despise coffee and tea, but in the dead of winter, I can handle hot chocolate.  Although I do drink it through a tightly clenched straw, I can do it. 
In a recent issue of Better Homes and Gardens, they gave a […]

Starbucks Corporation announced yesterday that they have fired their CEO Jim Donald, who has been at the helm for nearly two years, and are in the process of bringing back the company’s chairman and former chief executive, Howard Schultz. 
This move is designated as the first step in a major restructuring initiative to give the shareholders more bang for […]

The nomination period for the annual Food Blog Awards has kicked off, and you can go to our main site to cast your nominations.  Continue on below for today’s daily content on A Nice Cuppa.

I love giving and receiving gift baskets for the holidays.  Now don’t get me wrong.  I don’t mean the prefilled kind that you just throw in your shopping cart and send off without a second thought.  I mean the kind where you physically buy an empty basket and carefully select the items to go into […]

Southern Living magazine recently ran a piece on grabbing celebratory drinks while on the go this holiday season.  One of the drinks they featured was Hot Mexican Coffee from a place called Hugo’s in Houston.  It’s one of chef/owner Hugo Ortega’s popular traditions, and, as they described it, is “coffee infused with Mexican cinnamon, piloncillo […]

And now for a different type of coffee post … one that incorporates chocolate!  The folks at Twix are gearing up to introduce a limited edition candy bar, the Twix Java. 
A bar made up of coffee, caramel and a chocolate cookie, covered in milk chocolate, this just might be the perfect treat for your favorite coffee […]