A Nice Cuppa

I???ve been waiting for my green coffee place to send me a nice fat bag of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, quite possibly the best coffee ever, but seeing as the Yirgacheffe is out of season right now, I was happy to have the Djimmah instead. My coffee preferences run to Africa and Asian as opposed to South […]

Unless you are a seasoned craft beer appreciator, the combination of coffee and beer might sound a little strange, but the two flavors work together and make a nice pairing.
My first experience with mixing the flavor of beer with coffee was when I was in graduate school. At the north gates of the […]

West Oakland is not exactly hopping. The nearest place to get a cup of coffee is the mini-mart around the corner. Not exactly my idea of a decent cup of coffee. (More often than not the brew is so old and tasteless, that when you have no other options, you find yourself […]

I had to make a health food store run yesterday to stock up the pantry. My favorite, Mama Jean’s Natural Market, is a bit of a drive for me so when I’m there I usually peruse the aisles much like I wander joyously through the library on a Saturday morning. At both places, […]

Whenever my parents visit me in New York, my mother and I branch off from my father for a day filled with shopping and eating. We rejoin him each evening for dinner where we try in earnest to eat, but aren???t very convincing. Though we???ve never revealed the secret behind our full bellies, […]

No, I didn’t leave my latte in the freezer. Okay, well I sort of did - I left my Starbucks Low Fat Latte ice cream in the freezer. You can bet it won’t stay there for long though, it’s that good.
In general, I’m not a big consumer of ice cream. […]

Let me begin by saying that I eat in phases.
There was the Baked Potato Phase, the Milkshake Phase (one of my favorites), the Avocado Phase, and, that good old standby, the Cereal Phase (Frosted Flakes are the choice du jour, por favor).
Naturally, that is not to say that these are the only foods I eat, […]

My head is spinning, and I’ve gone to the bathroom about 5 times now. Yes, I know that’s TMI, but I’m doing it for you. See, when I saw that Burman coffee traders had a Kaapi Royale Robusta bean with nearly 4x the typical caffeine, I knew that as a blogger it was […]

Bikinis and low-riders and tea? Oh my! Marketing iced tea to the hot and thirsty has come a long way since the Lipton plunge. Remember the image of a fully clothed middle-aged man falling into a pool with an iced Lipton tea? That commercial is tame compared to Fuze’s summer advertising. […]

Undaunted by the delightful-sounding, yet ultimately disappointing Blisscotti, I am continuing my search for the perfect frozen coffee treat. I finally determined my criteria for perfection: I do not have to make it, it is readily available, not so expensive that I must forego actual food in order to purchase it, must be […]