A Nice Cuppa

When you live in a climate like Northern California???s, Autumn really isn???t that much different from Spring or Winter. So, how do I know the season has changed? Just check out the menu at any coffee shop. Starbuck???s is featuring a Pumpkin Spice Latte. Pumpkin mixed with espresso, blended with classic […]

In a previous issue of Olive magazine, they highlighted a new cocktail borne from the imagination of Adam Parsons of Manchester’s Matt and Phred’s Jazz Club, the Tib Street Tea Party. With a strong nod to British flavors, it combines Hendricks Gin and Chamomile Tea, and they serve it uniquely, in a tea cup.
Tib […]

Looking for a cool treat to help you beat the heat, something you can whip up quickly and easily? I came up with this coffee cooler while looking for a way to get my daily coffee fix and keep cool on these hot summer days. I used yogurt as the base instead of […]

I???m my daddy???s girl. Like pop, I roam the grocery aisles. While Dad gets his thrills price checking at Wal-Mart (his skill would stun Bob Barker), I prefer looking for funky-packaged fruit purees (my skill is drink-making) at Asian markets.

The flavor of the day is Mango. The drink is Mango-Lychee Bubble Tea. […]

Sounds awful, doesn’t it? Curry and coffee are not two flavors that I’d ever pair. But, when I read the award winning Insieme (Italian for Together) recipe for this funky mocha in Imbibe magazine, I thought I’d give it a try with my morning cup. Using a deep dark roasted Brazilian bean, […]

White sugar doesn???t contain calcium, phosphorous, iron or potassium. These nutrients are removed from table sugar during bleaching, a process that gives sugar the texture and color of dry snow. White sugar is monochromatic in flavor. It provides one sensation: Sweet. I use processed sugar when baking because its […]

One of the most common questions asked when serving up coffee is..
“How do you take yours?”
“With cream and sugar.” is the response of many Americans, but do you ever wonder how coffee drinkers in other countries drink theirs? Well, let’s take a little virtual trip around the globe.
Austria
In 1685, the very first […]

Who wants to think about hot drinks when it is sweltering in most parts of the world? Not me that’s for sure. So I am always looking for new ways to enjoy my favorite hot beverages in the summer without feeling like I am going to melt. I created this recipe after […]

Though it’s probably a little known fact that June is National Iced Tea Month, it’s a very well known fact that summer makes many of us crave iced tea. Some of us make sun tea, some make moon tea by letting the tea bags steep in the refrigerator overnight, and the rest of us, […]

The movie Casablanca is a Hollywood fabrication full of glamour, grit, and characters whose dialogue is far too smooth to be authentic. Yet the movie is true in its portrayal of Morocco as a place of intensity and fever. It???s a place where the heady air might knock you over and the eyes […]