by deCadmus | Jun 26, 2004 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews
Rating: [rating:3.5/5] The Green Mountain tasting series continues, this time a coffee with which I have no experience at all — Zimbabwe AA — and so I have no preconceptions about what to expect. Oh sure, it’s an African coffee, so I’m ready...
by deCadmus | Jun 25, 2004 | Coffee
Once upon a time, in a faraway land called Ethiopia — or maybe Abyssinia, it was a very long time ago, after all — there lived a young goatherd named Kaldi. By all accounts [and there are many, as the story has been retold many, many times] Kaldi was a...
by deCadmus | Jun 25, 2004 | Coffee
A romantic glimpse into the tradition of Becharas Brothers Coffee, a family-run coffee company in Detroit, Michigan. This view offers a particularly apt description of professional cupping… “Dean Becharas Sr., the 69-year-old patriarch of southeast...
by deCadmus | Jun 24, 2004 | Coffee
Let’s see… coffee has more antioxidants than green tea, chocolate and wine, it can prevent the onset of adult-onset diabetes, reduce the risk of colon cancer and Parkinson’s disease, and it boosts performance. It seems quite possible that coffee is...
by deCadmus | Jun 24, 2004 | Coffee
Researchers report the discovery of a coffee bean with virtually no caffeine: “It’s the news coffee-loving insomniacs the world over have been waiting for – scientists have discovered a naturally caffeine-free coffee plant. A cup of decaf could soon...
by deCadmus | Jun 24, 2004 | Coffee
SFGATE.com chimes in with a refreshingly well-researched piece on home coffee roasting, following the saga of one consumer who’s tumbled down the same, increasingly obsessive path as your trusty author… “Lundblad is part of a tiny, slow-growing...