One of the latest kitchen appliances in the past few years has been what is known as single serve coffee machines. The angle being that you make one cup of fresh coffee for immediate consumption. .. And how can we disagree? Most everything (especially coffee) tastes much better fresh. This compared to my parents “coffee” that sits on the coffee maker hotplate burning and turning bitter. Although this is an improvement over the days when they had a percolator which would actually boil the coffee. .. Actually, this is one of my “back in the day how tough [...click to contimue reading...]
Feb 122008
I’ve switched to Frontier Green Tea Chai…it’s simply the best Chai I’ve ever had. It’s also Low Caffeine, Certified Organic, Certified Fair Trade and Kosher..
As with most food items, Organic Coffee tastes best when fresh. But there’s more involved in a coffee’s freshness than it’s age. Proper storage is essential. If not done right, a coffee’s flavor will deteriorate fairly quickly. Here’s a quick review of some of the considerations involved in keeping coffee fresh.. There are several factors that cause a coffee’s flavor to deteriorate rapidly after roasting. These are moisture, light, air and heat.
Jul 062007
As I write this blog entry someone somewhere is ordering a decafe vente latte not too smarte from his local barista. Coffee is the ultimate wonder-food. It tastes great warm, tastes great cold, you can take it black and strong, creamy with foam, as an ice cream flavor and so on and so forth. There are so many aspects of coffee to write about. For now we’ll look at the organic vs. non-organic question of this wonderful beverage. Coffee, as you know, is an expensive commodity. And, being such, the non-organic grower will do everything [...click to contimue reading...]
