All About Gourmet Coffee

Kick caffeine habit with coffee substitute (Pioneer Press)
It's the caffeinated coffee conundrum: If you didn't drink coffee, you'd sleep better and be more awake in the morning so you wouldn't need to drink coffee in the morning to be more awake.

Product patrol (News 14 Carolina)
There’s no need to buy that special item for each task, Mrs. FIXIT has some products that will do double, triple, even quadruple duty! Did you know waterless hand cleaner is a great stain fighter?

Post-Cold War, smoking pot commonplace among Czechs / Marijuana now so popular authorities starting to worry (San Francisco Chronicle)
The man with the dancing eyebrows and the blurry tattoo stands in the chilled night and opens the barred gate to his apartment. A dog sleeps on the bed; a snapping turtle floats inside a glass coffee table. A fan hums and a hot light glows in the bathroom,…

Coffee Firm Buzzing: Java Dave's Brews Up Expansion (RedNova)
By Debbie Blossom, Tulsa World, Okla. Jan. 28–Here's the scoop — one of Tulsa's oldest coffeehouses is brewing up something new. The Java Dave's Coffee shop at 6239 E.

Starbucks' heady coffee and music blend to go global (Channel NewsAsia)
CANNES, France: Music and coffee lovers around the world are in for a treat. The king of the coffee shops, Starbucks, plans to start extending its unique USA blend of coffeehouse plus music store to its 10,000-plus outlets around the globe.

Weller's marriage raising issues (The State Journal-Register)
WASHINGTON - From coffee to hurricanes, U.S. Rep. Jerry Weller has faced a series of ethics questions since his marriage just over a year ago to a Guatemalan senator, the first time a member of Congress has ever wed a foreign lawmaker.

Starbucks' heady coffee and music blend to go global (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Music and coffee lovers around the world are in for a treat. The king of the coffee shops, Starbucks, plans to start extending its unique USA blend of coffeehouse plus music store to its 10,000-plus outlets around the globe.

Your morning jolt of java is replaceable
Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH - 16 hours ago It's the caffeinated coffee conundrum: If you didn't drink coffee you'd sleep better and be more awake in the morning so you wouldn't need to drink coffee in

Super Bowl rivalry extends to coffee, beer
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 56 minutes ago The Super Bowl will feature a team from the coffee capital of America. Nick Nicholas, whose grandfather founded Nicholas Coffee Co.

First Coffee - The Saga Of GlobeTel's VoIP and WiMAX Russian
TMCnet - 17 hours ago By David Sims. First CoffeeSM loves pouring gasoline on fires as much as the next excitement-addicted journalist, so would like to

Take-Two Interactive sued over Hot Coffee mod (Ars Technica)
It took awhile, but the inevitable has happened. Take-Two Interactive is being sued as a result of the Hot Coffee mod. But is it just a political ploy?

Coffee Pacifica Issues Stock Dividends (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LAS VEGAS—-Jan. 27, 2006–Coffee Pacifica, Inc. announced today that in accordance with the approval granted by the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting held on May 25, 2005; its board of directors have approved a five for four split of its common stock in the form of a stock dividend.

P&G Profit Up on Gillette, Raises Outlook (AP via Yahoo! News)
Procter & Gamble, the world's biggest consumer products company, said Friday that it second-quarter profit jumped 29 percent, driven by growth in most businesses and the October acquisition of razor and battery maker Gillette.

Jesus Inc. (CNN Money)
Entrepreneurs, it's been said, are born hungry and alone. And most are quick to seek not just bread but also fellowship. Nowhere is that impulse more evident than in the growing ranks of Christian business owners, who are banding together for mutual support while they seek to express their faith through their companies. They have created at least 30 networking organizations in the U.S., about

Company to Supply 1,232 Tonnes of Coffee to Local, Foreign Markets (AllAfrica.com)
Agri-CEFT PLC says preparations were underway to supply 1,232 tonnes of coffee to local and foreign markets in the current Ethiopian year.

Starbucks' heady coffee and music blend to go global (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Music and coffee lovers around the world are in for a treat. The king of the coffee shops, Starbucks, plans to start extending its unique USA blend of coffeehouse plus music store to its 10,000-plus outlets around the globe.

Missoula group connects coffee growers with market (Billings Gazette)
MISSOULA - "Most people don't know that coffee comes from cherries," said Sara Pankratz of the Missoula-based Alliance for Coffee Excellence. The red berrylike fruit yields green pits that are roasted and ground, she said, extending a pamphl …

It's a jungle in there
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 18 hours ago All is well and good until they start dripping nectar on the coffee table or floor to nip them in the bud, simply by cutting back the new, rapidly growing areas

Coffee Culture
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 9 hours ago of sorts. There's a growing niche of connoisseurs who are no longer happy with just a cup of coffee with cream. They want lattes

Wake up and smell the certified coffee!
OneWorld.net, UK - 1 hour ago for Environment and Development (IIED) are calling on governments, retailers and the mainstream coffee industry to support the growing consumer demand for

Coffee Holding Co., Inc. Fiscal Year 2005 Earnings Call to Be Held Today (SYS-CON Media)
Coffee Holding Co., Inc. (AMEX: JVA) will holda conference call to discuss the fiscal year results ending October 31,2005 today, Monday, January 23, at 4:15 EDT.

All that shines needn’t be gold, says Rogers (Gulf Times)
KUALA LUMPUR: Forget gold and oil, and put your money on cheap agricultural products like grains, coffee and cotton, says commodities investment guru Jim Rogers.

N.E. Coffee Revamps Its Presence on the Web (AdWeek)
BOSTON The New England Coffee Co. said it has launched a redesigned corporate Web site designed and developed by independent i-shop Boston Web Design here.

Breaking the popcorn 'n' coffee routine (Miami Herald)
Somewhere between spilling that first cup o' coffee on your keyboard and dashing out the door to do afternoon traffic battle on 1-95, you've got to eat. Although today's lunch hour may translate into five minutes and your desk may serve as a table, you can still do better than vending machine fare.

DJ Liffe Coffee Review: Down Slightly, Trims Early Losses
TMCnet - 11 hours ago (Comtex Finance Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)LONDON, Jan 23, 2006 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) –Liffe robusta coffee futures finished slightly lower

Coffee Booth helps keep us going
Los Alamos Monitor, NM - 10 hours ago Patty Ann and Brian Booth both know their coffee. They have been selling coffee and related products from their handsomely decorated

Coffee, Tea or Me?
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 6 hours ago Payment Cash Price Guide Pain au chocolate, $2.40, baguette with scrambled egg and leg ham, $7.50, croissant with ham cheese and mustard, $5, coffee x 2, $6.

No tossup regarding legality of Liberty coins (The Buffalo News)
Southtowns businessman Daniel Buczek said he has had "no trouble" using Liberty silver dollars to buy coffee, oil filters for his car and other items at a number of area businesses.

Wake up your hair - with black coffee? (Seattle Times)
Coffee as a hair rinse? Lip gloss as a blush? Who knows where those ideas came from? But when we're talking beauty, we all want the real…

Vietnam feeling growing pains with its coffee production (Asahi.com)
BUON MA THUOT, Vietnam–Vietnam is the second largest coffee exporter in the world following Brazil, but that hasn't been the case for long, and it hasn't been such a welcome fact, either.

If Martha Stewart Were a Geek… (Newsweek)
Jan. 30, 2006 issue - Ok, you've all got DVD players now. But before pondering the next step-Blu-ray? HD DVD? Downloaded movies?-give a thought to that old VHS player in the garage. The flashing "12:00" still pops up when you plug it in, doesn't it?

Robbed? You still have to pay taxes on lost money (The Daily News)
OLYMPIA — The cash was gone — grabbed by a gun-toting robber — but espresso-stand owner Roseann Carpenter still had to pay taxes on the money. "That was kind of hard to take," Carpenter, proprietor of Huckle-Bearies Espresso & Ba Ke Shoppe in Aberdeen, told lawmakers Friday.