Coffee Coma

Pinterest is quickly becoming the new site everyone is gravitating towards (or maybe it’s just me), but I’m glad to be a slave to poring over the many ideas for food, fashion, and home, among a trillion other inspirational bits pinned there. I recently checked out all things caffeinated, and here are some of my [...]

Coffee is my drug…

I know that I really shouldn’t say that coffee is like my crack, my drug, but it is. I know it’s not everyone’s crack, especially not my kids’ crack because that would be (and sounds really) bad.  Besides, raisins are Arthur’s crack and Diego cartoons are Ian’s. But back to coffee and crack. Take this [...]

Coffee Musings

On getting ready to grind fresh beans Arthur declares: Uppy, uppy, uppy (Arthur-speak for pick me up) and his tiny index finger starts pressing the grind button. On filling my to-go cup Ian asks: Mommy, why are you bringing your coffee with you outside to play? It’s part of my playtime. Later on in the [...]

Why is Coffee So Popular?

Why is it that coffee is so popular all over the globe… If you think about it, so many people flock to certain coffee shops to regularly treat themselves so that they can purchase a coffee drink—with frills—which actually tastes pretty different than, well, coffee. Now there seem to be movements or fads to sell [...]

Do You Drink Coffee?

Sometimes I have the following conversation with the occasional person, acquaintance that goes like this: Them: Are you a coffee drinker? Me: Ummm, yeah… Aren’t you?? Then I lose myself in a swirl of thoughts regarding the aforementioned question: Why wouldn’t you drink coffee? Let’s play this out: You don’t like the way it tastes? [...]

POLL: Will Starbucks’ Price Hike Change Your Coffee Drinking Habits?

Prices reportedly will increase only on some drinks, and only in certain parts of the country. By Karla Vallance 4:00 pm My tall, black extra-bold coffee is going to cost me 10-cents more. Word from the Seattle-based coffee company is that prices will increase one percent. The AP quotes a company spokesman as saying higher costs are the [...]

Albanian makes world’s largest coffee bean mosaic

TIRANA | Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:19pm EST (Reuters) – A mosaic made with a million coffee beans by Albanian artist Saimir Strati, depicting five musicians, entered the Guinness World Records Monday as the world’s largest coffee bean mosaic. Strati used 140 kg (309 pounds) of coffee beans, some roasted black, some averagely and some not roasted [...]

Coffee roasting class at the Domestic Institute of Technology

If you want to start roasting your own coffee beans at home — or are at all interested in how beans are roasted — check the website of the Institute of Domestic Technology for upcoming classes. The first coffee roasting class took place in October, taught by LA Mill coffee roaster Ian Riley. Another is scheduled for Jan. 22, says Joseph [...]

Holiday Drinks, Yum!

I happen to know that Christmas cannot come soon enough when a certain coffee chain starts pimping their festive coffee cup as early as November 1st. I’m not sure what it is about the cup: If it’s the promise of the pending holiday cheer; the start to the jolly season; the looming conclusion to the [...]

A Holiday Warning

Can you believe it’s November? I feel like I blinked and summer was over. The leaves have changed, we’ve handed out the Halloween candy, and now the countdown is on to the best holiday of the year — Thanksgiving! I love Thanksgiving. There’s no agenda, no gifts to buy. Just friends and family around a [...]