Malaysia’s Ipoh city is home to a unique type of coffee called white coffee not related to the color, although it is often served with condensed milk but meaning without. The local Chinese language translates to without, the settlers in this mining town started to roast coffee only with margarine at a steady rate and…
A coffee company located in Cicero NY is going green. It already uses wind power for its roasting plant and has over 160 solar panels. The Paul Delima plant has been roasting coffee for over 100 years for many brands. The company also takes the used grounds to the local college to be made into…
There was a fun blog post recently in The LA times about a lady who travels and takes her little one cup coffee maker with her, its called a AeroPress and features two chambers for brewing. You simply place the maker on top of a cup then in the lower chamber add ground coffee over…
Ever wondered what you can do with left over gouremt coffee or coffee grounds? Well here are some great tips: Rub Coffee beans in your hands after cooking with garlic and fish – the natural coffee oils will absorb the odors from the cooking Pour a little boiling water and gourmet coffee grounds down the…
America has a new champion barista: Michael Phillips of Intelligentsia coffee in Chicago. He just won the 11th Annual World Barista Championships in London. Phillips reports enjoying his Gourmet Coffee job and gaining his love of hot coffee and espresso drinks during his time studying in the chilly North. He made his coffee drinks, espresso…
A new report by Mint.com a leading consumer finance research site has released figures on America’s top coffee cities, with average monthly figures that Americans spend on coffee. The top ten for average monthly amount spend on coffee per person are: Seattle – $36 San Jose – $34 Portland – $33 Phoenix – $33 Las…
Kickstand coffee in NYC follows a new green trend of mobile coffee bars, powered by people. The coffee bar is transported and powered by the cyclists. It was a big hit this past weekend in McClarren Park. The two barista cyclists tow all the equipment between them and set up shop wherever they please. The…
Grab a cup of hot Gourmet Coffee and enjoy: No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness.  ~Sheik Abd-al-Kadir No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.  ~Henry Ward Beecher A morning without coffee is like sleep. …
It may sound strange but the most expensive and sought after Gourmet Coffee in the World comes from the Dung of a civet a cat like animal native to Indonesia and the Philippines. Their dung is carefully collected and used to make Kopi Luwak coffee. The animals eat the coffee cherries that then get fermented…
Seattle, the birth place of Starbucks, is considered to be America’s Gourmet Coffee capital it is well known for high quality coffees. Starbucks is a world wide coffee brand found on almost every street corner in the World’s major cities. Coffee arrived in America in the 1600’s brought by John Smith to Jamestown, it was…
So to continue our global tour of coffee practices around the World, the next stop is Ethiopia, in fact, believed to the the home of coffee. The coffee ceremony is a centerpiece of Ethiopian culture. First the Gourmet Coffee is roasted over hot coals in a special container used a brazer fresh green beans are…
Coffee was introduced to Vietnam by the French in the late 19th Century and has been a popular beverage ever since. A French dark roast is used and ground finely, chicory may also be added and is in fact quite similar in taste to Cafe De Monde coffee and South Indian filter coffee. Vietnamese filter…
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