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Cruising for Coffee


I am not a boat person. And, although I travel a lot, I’ve never really pictured myself on a cruise. Until last night, when I stumbled upon this sweet looking cruise package: Coffee Cruises! You spend 8 days cruising the Mexican Peninsula, seeing sites and learning all about coffee from cupping […]

Nothing Beats Free Beans


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 […]

Tea Sweets


Tea Sweets are delectable cookies made with premium tea leaves. The tasty little cookies are the work of the talented gals at Amai Tea & Bake House in NYC. The idea for Tea Sweets was developed when Amai’s co-owner and resident baker Kelli Bernard thought it strange that “tea cookies” typically contain no […]

Starbucks Has Us Seeing Green


“Your taste buds will bloom”…
That’s what the Starbucks pitch is for their two new green tea beverages being introduced this spring. The Blackberry Green Tea Frappacino creme and the Tazo Green Tea Latte are both made with premium matcha green tea and packed full of flavor.
I haven’t had the […]

World Tea Expo


The World Tea Expo is a yearly event, which is the largest tea trade show in the world. This years expo kicked off on April 3, 2006 in Las Vegas, NV. The 2006 expo brought record attendance far surpassing anything World Tea Expo founder and president, George Jage, ever anticipated.
This year’s event featured […]