Coffee Seek

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)

Do you like Peet's Coffee and Tea? Then maybe you want to stop by today for their special Founders Day events, including coffee tasting and a free tote bag if you buy coffee or spend $20. Mmm, I can smell those fresh roasted beans being perked right...

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The Murfreesboro chapter of Coffee Party USA will hold a National Coffee House Day at 6 p.m. Saturday at Panera Bread, according to a news release.

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Coffee Party USA to launch kickoff day in Murfreesboro Saturday (Daily News Journal)

Reacting to a study saying Kona coffee farmers lose $14.4 million to blenders each year, some processors and sellers claim changing state law to ban the practice of blending Kona coffee or require more Kona coffee in blends would negatively impact farmers, jobs and profits.

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Blenders refute coffee study (West Hawaii Today)

Larry Larson will tell you he has always been a coffee geek. Growing up in Tacoma, Wash., he saw the gourmet coffee movement rise from the ground up.

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Coffee crusader (The News & Observer)

National Comic Act Brad Todd will bring clean, Christian humor to the Coffee House at 6:30 p.m. Friday March 19. A top-flight writer with a knack to think on his feet, Todd has

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B'ville: Coffee House presents Christian comedian (Cnylink)

Coffee aficionados have been asking the question over and over again: Is Portland's Stumptown coffee, the most conspicuous exponent of coffee's "third wave," the new Starbucks?

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Stumptown Coffee Outshines Rival Starbucks (Time.com via Yahoo! News)

* Vietnam to stockpile coffee for 9 months -Vicofa

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Vietnam Coffee-Stockpiling begins as prices fall anew (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

Treasury has cleared the planned takeover of Socfinaf Limited by rival coffee firm Waguthu Holdings (K) Limited, setting the stage for new competition in the industry.

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Kenya : Coffee Firm's Takeover By Rival Gets Treasury Go-Ahead (AllAfrica.com)

/EFE) Brazil's coffee exports fell 15 percent in volume terms in February, compared to the same month in 2009, the exporters council, known as Cecafe, said.

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Brazil's coffee exports fall 15 percent (Sify News)