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The Best Coffee at Home

If you can’t get to your favorite coffee house, you should at least be able to have the best coffee possible at home, right? But how do you know which coffee maker is the best? Or which beans to use? Or how to grind them? That’s where the Coffee Detective comes in. This site tells…

The History of Irish Coffee

It seems appropriate today to look at the history of Irish coffee, that wonderful, dark, strong drink that is a wonderful hair-of-the-dog hangover cure. Though San Francisco pubs used to claim they invented Irish coffee, the true story of the drink comes from the airport at Foynes in County Claire, Ireland (near the current Shannon…

Coffee for a Cause

Fighting cancer is hard enough without the added pressure of being a small business owner. But when Lynda Larsen was diagnosed with cancer in August, she quickly combined her struggle against cancer with her work as owner, with her husband, Steve, of Cafe Cartago, a specialty coffee distributor based in Denver. The company’s newest product…

Coffee House at Home

So maybe you’re Jonesing for a nice iced coffee but you can’t drop everything and go to the coffee house right now (or, God forbid, there isn’t a good coffee house in your town). Or maybe you’re just looking for some different ways to drink coffee, brew coffee or cook with coffee. Look no further…

Blowin’ in the Wind

Lots of people don’t like Starbuck for lots of different reasons. They come in to town and force indpendents out, they contribute to the McDonald’s-ification of the world, so no matter where you are you can be assured you can get a Big Mac and a Mochaccino, they don’t do enough as corporate citizens to…

Remembrance of Coffees Past

My friend Peter used to work at this coffee shop tucked away in the corner of a strip mall. It was pretty small and dark, with black tile and a black ceiling, dark tables and a few comfy couches and chairs in the back. There were the requisite old games of Scrabble and chess, and…