Archive for August, 2007

Woz: Why Robots Will Never Make Coffee

What’s not to love about Steve Wozniak?

Think of the steps that a human being has to do to make a cup of coffee and you have covered basically 10, 20 years of your lifetime just to learn it. So for a computer to do it the same way, it …

Coffee Notes from All Over

I resolve to stop collecting coffee memorabilia. ‘Cause the repercussions are daunting —

Barbara and Lowell Shindler’s coffee cup runneth over. Coffee SignThe couple, who have a coffee-distributing business, have turned the basement of their Roslyn home into something of a coffee museum …

Coffee Geneology — A Varietal Family Tree

Coffee Tree…and Typica begat Bourbon; and Bourbon begat Caturra; and Caturra begat Catui and Villa Sarchi (which should not be confused with Saatchi & Saatchi.) And it was good. Well, much of it, anyway.

No, it’s not yet another lost book of the …

Roasted ’til the Bitter End

Science Daily reports that chemists have identified those chemical compounds largely responsible for coffee’s bitterness. More, their findings suggest that most of the bitterness is introduced during coffee roasting.
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“Everybody thinks that caffeine is the main bitter compound in coffee, but that’s …

iPhones, Black Holes and Stickin’ It to The Man

The state of Vermont is a black hole so far as AT&T is concerned… they offer no direct cellular service here, only a roaming agreement through Vermont’s regional carrier, Unicel. Which is neither here nor there, unless you want to buy an iPhone. And then it’s… well, anywhere but …

Shade Grown Coffee — Just How Shady Is It?

All third-party coffee certifications are not equal. I’ve touched upon this idea before, most recently in How Many Labels are Too Many Labels. I think it’s a point that bears repeating, and some critical examination, too. To our good fortune Coffee & Conservation is doing both, by digging …