A Nice Cuppa

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 […]

If there is ever a time to splurge on yourself, others and the waist-line, the holiday season is it! Chef’s Catalog is making it easy, by reducing the price on their fabulous chocolate fountain (Shown above, discounted from $250 to $99!). Imagine the fun of dipping strawberries, banana, cookies, cherries and other delights […]

I admit it, when it comes to hot beverages, I am pretty much stuck on coffee and tea as being the only ones I fixate on when the weather chills. I do love hot apple cider, especially swirled with a cinnamon stick, and of course, when the snow falls in Minnesota and I spend time […]

Please do not disturb! My water bottle is meditating… It’s OGO, “The Breathing Water.”
Ahhh yes….. I think my water bottle is coming out of its deep state of meditation in oxygen absorbtion! Has it attained a higher state? Hopefully it won’t say “Just breathe, you feel me?” It is saying, “The wisdom of the way […]

Last week’s Dining In/Dining Out section of the New York Times featured a short and sweet article about iced coffee. Turns out you can brew coffee cold. Who knew? Cindy Price writes that “without the bitterness produced by hot water, the cold-brewed coffee had hints of chocolate, even caramel.” And who […]

I’m not sure the words “coffee” and “soda” necessarily go together, but that could just be my palate talking.  The folks at Java Pop, Inc. have come up with an earth-friendly coffee soda that is working on getting your taste buds tingling in the best possible way.
It is 100% natural, non-dairy based, carbonation available in […]

SoBe Beverages, best known for their bottled energy drinks, has teamed up with Dunkin’ Donuts to offer a new beverage this summer: the SoBe Energy Coolatta. The cherry citrus-flavored will be a nice addition to Dunkin’ Donuts popular line of frozen slush drinks which includes Coffee Coolatta, Lemonade Coolatta, Vanilla Bean Coolatta, and other fruit […]

I stumbled upon this recipe the other day in a Martha Stewart Good Things book that I picked up at a used bookstore. My rhubarb is already starting to shoot up like a weed, plus rhubarb is one of the very few local, organic fruits you can find in season this time of year, so […]

It might surprise you to know that I don’t drink coffee or tea. Surprises the heck out of my mom and husband, confirmed coffee addicts that they are. It’s just an aversion to hot drinks, is all. I do, however, like Starbucks mocha drinks in a glass filled with ice. ‘Specially […]

I don’t know when exactly my epiphany was. I know it struck sometime last summer, in the height of heat and humidity, in a dark and musty Virginian dorm room where I was staying for a job. I know there was desperation in my northeastern soul as I battled the gigantic bugs that […]