Coffee News

Check here for the latest news from around the world about all-things-coffee, updated daily by the coffee lovers at ROASTe.

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    This week it was reported that coffee kingpin Starbucks confirmed its interest in entering the single serve coffee market. Chicago Tribune writer Emily Bryson York predicted that this move by the coff ...

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    New research has just been reported this week on coffee rings, those messy brown circles left on your table or coaster by drips from your cup. Now scientists have replicated them to find a nanoscale l ...

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    Robot Makes Coffee Shop Run

    • 02/10/2011 - 18:57

    A Mountain View California photographer, Aaron Blumenshine, last week documented a robot on a scone-procurement mission at a local coffee shop. Commercially known as an Anybot, the robot rolled down ...

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    Nutrition Action Health Letter’s cover story for Jan./Feb. 2011 highlights unexpected and surprising health findings from the last 40 years, on the occasion of the 40th birthday of the journal’s s ...

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    As temperatures go south, so do the birds, finding coffee plantations a welcome respite. Shade-grown coffee is in the news again. This week Jim Williams wrote a report on a Maryland birder’s visi ...

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    Called a “Caffeine Edible”, the latest product to enable your hurried mornings is the “Hyper-Caffeinated Coffee-Flavored Marshmallow”. Hmmm, it takes more time to say it than to just fix your ...

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    There have been many reports this week about a University of British Columbia study of antioxidants in roasted coffee. Some of the discussions were a bit confusing, but some writers, including report ...

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    Some might say the coffee shops in Tokyo have gone to the dogs, or more correctly, cats. Not only in Japan, but also in Korea and Vietnam, the popularity of or fascination with cats is getting a littl ...

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    Coffee RX For the Snowbound

    • 02/02/2011 - 17:12

    Jessica Webster of Ann Arbor’s online news has a problem that many of you share - forecasts of more snow. If the stormy weather is still threatening and there are concerns of potential power outages ...

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    When's a Cherry Not a Cherry?

    • 02/01/2011 - 16:50

    Erin Meister recently traveled to Nicaragua so she could taste a fresh coffee cherry. Well, maybe not just to taste the cherry, but as a barista trainer and coffee culture writer, she’s presumably ...

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