All About Gourmet Coffee

How to pet-proof your home: Toxic, physical and food hazards (Fort Wayne News-Sentinel)
- Remove pennies, nicotine products, mothballs and batteries that might be lying around. All can be lethal to a pet if digested.

Green Mountain Coffee on a roll (The Burlington Free Press)
It all started with a cup of coffee in a Waitsfield cafe. Robert Stiller ordered the coffee and liked it so much he decided to buy into the business that made it.

IBM in the Blogosphere (The Motley Fool via Yahoo! News)
The Internet and other new technologies make many businesses possible — think of eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY - News), for example, and Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN - News). Without the Internet, they'd likely be out of business. Such businesses are clearly fans of the Web.

Greystripe Announces the Release of Caffeine Finder, a Free Coffee Shop Local Search Application for BlackBerry (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Greystripe, a creator of mobile local search applications, has launched Caffeine Finder, a free application for coffee lovers to find their next cup of coffee. Just one click from the BlackBerry® handset immediately finds, maps, and lists the coffee shops nearest you, wherever you may be. Visit www.greystripe.com to register and to download the application directly on to a BlackBerry handset

AUBURN (King County Journal)
ROBBERY: Auburn police report that an espresso stand in the 3200 block of Auburn Way North was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday by a man who drove up and demanded money. Police believe he might be the same man who robbed an espresso stand in Kent the day before. No one was hurt.

FBI: Moroccan couple kept niece as slave at espresso stand (Fox 12 Oregon)
SEATTLE The F-B-I says a teenage Moroccan girl who came to Washington to get a good education was kept as a slave by her aunt and uncle.

Luck for New Year'sd: Super-size soft pretzels can bring good fortune (Elko Daily)
WELLS - For those who know the old German tradition, New Year's celebrants believe that the bread of life is no ordinary loaf. A big soft-dough pretzel eaten on first day of the New Year ensures good luck the whole year through, and practically guarantees longevity.

Stay-at-home convenience latest fine-coffee trend (Honolulu Advertiser)
WATERBURY, Vt. — A half dozen production lines operate 12 hours a day, cutting small filters and stuffing them into tiny cups, dropping in two or three grams of coffee and sealing them before whisking them into boxes.

Floods Kill Eleven in Vietnam, Delays Coffee Harvest (Planet Ark)
HANOI - Flash floods triggered by prolonged rains have killed at least 11 people in central Vietnam and delayed the coffee harvest in the Central Highlands, state media and officials said on Wednesday.

Music, coffee and ministry (Cordova Appeal)
Serving a blend of fresh coffee, Christian merchandise and live Christian music, Faith Music and Coffee Shop, 714 N. Germantown Parkway, has found its niche in the Cordova community.

Coffee chain expands (Bangkok Post)
Black Canyon (Thailand) Co will end this year with 13 international outlets following the opening later this month of four new restaurants in neighbouring countries and the Middle East. The group intends to have at least 20 Black Canyon outlets operational in the Middle East in the next five year, according to Pravit Chitnarapong, managing director of the coffee and restaurant chain.

THE BEAT GOES ON AT CHARLIE'S COFFEE HOUSE (Chicago Tribune)
One of Wilmette's leading business owners, and arguably its most active, is Bob Danon. He settled there in 1996, opening a frame shop at 1126 Central Ave. Two years later he moved into the space next door and turned it into a gallery.

Couple make Moroccan teenage niece to work like Cinderella (Pravda Ru)
16:55 2005-12-17 A teenage Moroccan girl who came to Washington state in hopes of getting a good education and becoming a dentist was instead kept as a slave by her aunt and uncle, who pulled her out of school and forced her to work without pay at the family's espresso stand, the FBI says.

FBI: Lakewood Couple Kept Moroccan Teenage Niece As Slave (KOMO)
They say the couple pulled their niece out of school and forced her to work without pay at the family's espresso stand.

Lakewood couple keep immigrant niece as slave for espresso stand (The Olympian)
SEATTLE — A teenage Moroccan girl who came to Washington state in hopes of getting a good education and becoming a dentist was instead kept as a slave by her aunt and uncle, who pulled her out of school and forced her to work without pay at the family's espresso stand, the FBI says.

Chock full o'memory (NorthJersey.com)
Now there's scientific evidence that plunking down $3 for a grande double-shot soy espresso macchiato with a twist is good for you. Austrian researchers took MRI snapshots of volunteers' brains before and after they downed coffee.

FBI: Moroccan couple kept niece as slave at espresso stand (Fox 12 Oregon)
SEATTLE The F-B-I says a teenage Moroccan girl who came to Washington to get a good education was kept as a slave by her aunt and uncle.

Coffee farmers miss out on coffee shop boom
Reuters.uk, UK - Dec 15, 2005 Allegra's Managing Director Jeffrey Young. "Coffee is also better quality than it ever was but it is not growing volumes significantly.".

Landslides kill 9 in central Vietnam
Reuters AlertNet, UK - 1 hour ago Weather forecasters in the country's top coffee-growing province of Daklak told Reuters rains had resumed after a temporary pause on Friday and they expected

First Coffee: The FCC's Martin On VoIP Phone Taxes, Visto and
TMCnet - Dec 15, 2005 The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is the ol’ iTunes messages per day in 2005, to 49 billion messages per day in 2009, growing at an

Old favorites, new ideas
Palladium-Item, IN - 12 hours ago study was prompted by a journalist's inquiry from a reader who had discovered that pouring a little gin onto paperwhites growing in pebbles Forget coffee, too.

Coffee farmers getting impatient over insurance payments (The Jamaica Observer)
THE Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) says it wants an early resolution to the non-payment of money due to more than 10,000 coffee farmers from proceeds of insurance coverage, subsequent to Hurricane Ivan last September.

Swiss firm Haco set to ship coffee from M’sia (The Star Online)
SWISS food manufacturer Haco will start exporting top grade coffee from Malaysia early next year when its new RM120mil plant begins full production of soluble coffee.

"THE TOWN WITHOUT SANTA CLAUS" >> Chapter 4
MyWestTexas.com, TX - 14 hours ago First we lost our Santa, and now this!". Rachel stared at the coffee in front of her. Hannah giggled. "That's 'cause I'm growing. Like a weed, Grammy says.

Ice cream goes upmarket
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - Dec 11, 2005 The experience now is similar to the cafes propagated by the ever-growing coffee culture. In other words, ice cream is ‘growing up’.

Decaffeinated coffee may raise level of bad cholesterol
DetNews.com, MI - Dec 13, 2005 Among other research presented were studies on growing blood vessels in labs and H. Robert Superko, who presented the study on decaffeinated coffee, said the

UF students flock to coffee shops and cafes to prepare for exams.
Gainesville Sun, FL - 18 hours ago He's one of a growing number of students flocking to wireless Internet hubs this week across tables in some of Gainesville's busiest restaurants and coffee shops

For Perfect Cookies, Add a Big Dollop of Blithe Abandon (New York Times)
The best way to ensure that two batches of cookies are never exactly the same involves mastering a technique and then changing it with abandon.

Kansas editorials (Kansas City Star)
The Kansas Board of Education decision to redefine science led to a raft of well-deserved indictments from scientific and educational organizations.

Eoin Harrington gets his big break on Morissette bill (San Jose Mercury News)
Earlier this year Eoin Harrington played in a songwriting competition at San Jose's Espresso Garden & Cafe — but he didn't win.

Where the Gold Rush Began (Richard Bangs Adventures via Yahoo! News)
Barry Clifford is shocked at how much Panama has changed in 15 years. Where once there were barrios, now there are glistening glass and steel towers. The Panama Rail Road, then a rusted "monkey condominium," is now a sleek transportation bullet. American fast-food franchises litter the streets. The Thieves Market has an espresso stand.

Vargabar espresso (Sydney Morning Herald)
Address 10 Wilson Street, Newtown Phone (02) 9517 1932 Style Cafes Cuisine Cafe Fare Hours Mon-Fri 7am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am-6pm Details Breakfast Payment Cash Price Guide Chilli peanut tofu burger $10.50, lemon lime chicken burger $10.50, mixed berry smoothie $5.50, cheesecake $6.50, chocolate brownie $3.50, mocha $3.50, flat white $2.70.

Package likely to revive coffee sector, LS told (India Daily)
The Government's special package is expected to revive the coffee sector and improve the financial condition of growers, the Lok Sabha was informed today.

Coke to launch line of premium coffee drinks (Miami Herald)
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated in Charlotte, N.C., is the first U.S. Coke bottler to launch a line of premium coffee drinks. Coke Consolidated, the nation's No. 2 Coke bottler, began selling the coffee drinks last week under the ''Cinnabon'' name as part of a strategy to innovate with new products. The company has worked with the line's maker, Brain Twist, to launch it at $1.99 per can in

Printing becomes a snap
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - 21 hours ago In Maine, customers can go to Cafe Click, one of the growing number of digital printing lounges that offer gourmet coffee and a kids' play area.