Wine Spectator reports on changing tastes of America

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Wine Spectator reports on changing tastes of coffee drinkers in America – For its part, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, a coffee roaster that started in the Bay Area, introduced lighter-roasted beans in 6,400 grocery stores this past summer and will soon serve a lighter-roast coffee in its 197 stores. That the likes of Peet’s, which acquired a near-cult following for its extremely dark–roasted beans, is now embracing a lighter roast is as astounding as hearing that North Korea will hold free elections.

Commodity historians find that coffee houses remain while smoking fades

Dr. Brian Cowan presented his paper

Dr. Brian Cowan presented his paper titled “Transnational and Comparative Hisotries of Coffee and Sociability” at a workshop Monday afternoon. Cowan is a professor of Early Modern British Hisotry at McGill University in Montreal.

Drink coffee to cut diabetes risk

Moderate consumption of coffee everyday may lower a person’s chances of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study has found. Photo: Special Arrangement

Moderate consumption of coffee everyday may lower a person’s chances of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study has found.

Adding Up Those Coffees at Work – $1,000 a Year

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By MOTOKO RICH While a weak economy may have driven consumers to cut back, we know that they are still indulging on the little things. As we’ve been told over and over, those indulgences add up. According to a new survey, half of all American workers buy coffee regularly during work hours, spending more than [...]

Global Coffee Consumption Continues to Swell

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Source:PR WEB GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global outlook on the Coffee (Roasted & Specialty) Industry. Modern times have witnessed the evolution of coffee from an everyday habit to a healthy lifestyle choice. Coffee gains the status of being the most preferred beverage worldwide, with more than 400 billion cups of annual consumption. [...]

How the Bean Impacted the USA

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Brian Clark Howard – Coffee Infographic Many of us adore the taste and other sensations of a hot cup of joe, not to mention the comfort and ritual of it, but how much do we want to look behind the bean? For all the talk of caffeine, science actually doesn’t know a lot about its [...]

Redefining fair trade coffee

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Redefining fair trade coffee by Victoria Bouloubasis @thisfeedsme Counter Culture pays a fixed minimum price of $3.60 per pound for green coffee When you buy a pound or a mug of fair trade coffee—signified by its logo depicting yin and yang—you expect that somewhere in Africa, Central America or Indonesia, a small farmer is benefiting [...]

Coffee Industry: Prices Down & Consumption Up

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Coffee Production in the US: Market Research Report Coffee Production Market Research Report | NAICS 31192a | Nov 2011 Coffee perking up Americans love their coffee. So although the US Coffee Production industry has been somewhat hampered by recessionary effects, demand has continued steadily and kept revenue growth up. Recent research into coffee’s health benefits [...]

Can Starbuck’s Coffee Fix the Economy?

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Coffee Fix: Starbucks Pushes Small Business Loans Posted by: John Tozzi on October 18, 2011 Howard Schultz is giving new meaning to “start me up.” The increasingly activist Starbucks Corp. chief executive officer is taking donations online and through Starbucks cafes to create a small business lending fund. The company will donate $5 million in [...]

Hold the Presses: Coffee is Good For You

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Latest Medical Report: Coffee is Good For You, It helps reduce depression, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease… So drink up! Enjoy life and have a cuppa Joe.