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Daily dose of caffeine

Online Staff — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:42:37 +0000

My earliest coffee memory is 14 or 15 years old. Just before my bedtime, Grandma would pour a hot mug of the good stuff, take out another mug and continue to pour it back and forth between the two cups until it became a frothy delight. Then I would drink it—foam first, of course—and head to sleep, blissfully unaware of caffeine’s intended use.

Since those youthfully wild-spirited days, I have become an occasional coffee drinker. News snippets detailing recent studies every now and then have kept my Starbucks visits to a minimum with their cautionary tales of unregulated caffeine intake. [read more...]

Caffeine, caffeine, where art thou?

Genevieve Jerome — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:35:26 +0000

Walking into United Coffee House, my nostrils are immediately filled with alluring scent of fresh, strong, dark coffee, perhaps a little too strong.

United Coffee House has a strange scent and their coffee is unlike anything I have ever smelled before. The coffee does not smell like the seductive scent of Peet’s Coffee & Tea, nor does it smell like a candy factory, the way Starbucks smells.

They say they sell organic fair trade coffee, and boy, they were not kidding, it smells like the fertilizer in my backyard.

Although the walls are filled with awesome paintings by [read more...]