Caffeinated Life: Tasting the origins of coffee (The Gilroy Dispatch)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

The world of coffee is vast and varied. When shopping for your weekly caffeine fix, it helps to know what it is you are about to acquire, quality and flavor wise. Coffee flavor is a product of microclimate, soil, elevation, tree varietals and processing. In general, we can group the world's coffees into four different regions: Latin America, Africa/Yemen (Arabia), Indonesia and Islands ...

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Caffeinated Life: Tasting the origins of coffee (The Gilroy Dispatch)

COLUMN: When we had time for coffee breaks (Sarnia Observer)

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

PAUL MORDEN The Observer Waiting in line the other day for takeout coffee got me thinking back. Just a couple of months after I started work at The Observer newsroom, about 150 years ago, I was shipped out to the newspaper's Petrolia bureau.

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COLUMN: When we had time for coffee breaks (Sarnia Observer)

Caribou Coffee brews new image (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

The latest phase in a year's worth of rebuilding and rebranding at Caribou Coffee has hit the streets. The new look ranges from the subtle - brown cup covers - to the sublime: a new-looking caribou logo built out of a coffee bean.

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Caribou Coffee brews new image (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

RI woman charged in coffee assault (FOX Providence)

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

A North Smithfield woman is facing assault charges in Massachusetts for allegedly throwing a hot cup of coffee on a parking enforcement officer ticketing her car.

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Coffee shop makeovers almost done (The Sault Star)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Two Tim Hortons outlets undergoing renovations are expected to open late next week, after which two others will do the same. Coffee-lovers can still get their fix at trailers parked outside the stores.

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Coffee shop makeovers almost done (The Sault Star)

Nicaraguan Fair Trade coffee available at Roseland Quick Chek (The Progress)

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

ROSELAND – Quick Chek, the family-operated chain of more than 120 fresh food store locations throughout New Jersey and Southern New York, including Roseland, will carry Nicaraguan Matagalpa coffee in all store locations beginning Monday, Feb. 22.

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Nicaraguan Fair Trade coffee available at Roseland Quick Chek (The Progress)

Battered Womenâs Service hosts coffee house benefit (Morris NewsBee)

Friday, February 26th, 2010

MORRIS PLAINS - The Jersey Battered Women’s Service (JBWS) will present its Second Annual Coffee House to benefit the services provided for the children staying in the safe house and transitional living apartments from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 6 at St. Bernard’s Parish in the Mount Hope section of Rockaway Township.

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Chatham church congregation supports coffee ministry for troops (Chatham Courier)

Friday, February 26th, 2010

CHATHAM - For the third consecutive year, the congregation of Stanley Congregational Church, United Church of Christ (UCC), 94 Fiarmount Ave., is supporting a Coffee House Ministry by making a donation to the UCC Holy Joe’s Cafe Coffee Project.

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Atlanta Coffee Shop Robbed at Gunpoint (FOX 5 Atlanta)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

A calm Atlanta teenager kept her cool as a robber forced her at gunpoint to hand over store cash at an East Atlanta coffee shop.

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Atlanta Coffee Shop Robbed at Gunpoint (FOX 5 Atlanta)

Dubai- Coffee Planet launches fastest Espresso maker (MENAFN)

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Dubai- Coffee Planet launches fastest Espresso maker

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