Coffee may help prevent breast cancer
A new report suggests that caffeinated coffee may greatly reduce (75%!!!) the risk of breast cancer in women with a specific genetic mutation. You can read the article here.
Add comment January 6th, 2006
Archive for January, 2006
Latte art!
It’s amazing what some baristas can do with lattes. My local hangout produces lattes with a wavy pattern in the foam on top; personally I havn’t been able to make anything at home beyond a blob. Well, wouldn’t you know it, someone’s created a whole website about latte art. It’s a Norweigan website, so I can’t read it, but as near as I can tell, they organize workshops and even contests for this skill! Check out some of the photos in their gallery.
Add comment January 5th, 2006
Coffee posters
I found a website that has a nice selection of coffee poster art, Allposters.com, and have created a page, here, with many of the posters available. This website receives a small commission on purchases made via the links there; all proceeds will go to fund my coffee addiction. 
Add comment January 2nd, 2006
Luwak coffee
Most serious coffee drinkers have by now heard of Luwak coffee, but those who haven’t will notice it pops up in the news every year or two, usually around this time of year as people are shopping for unique gifts (here’s this year’s story at Yahoo). Dave Barry even wrote a piece about coffee where he commented on this special type of coffee. So, what makes it so special? Well, for around $200 per pound (yes, that’s two hundred dollars, it’s not a typo), you get coffee beans that started out life as nice normal coffee cherries in Indonesia. A weasel-like animal called a Civet likes to eat those coffee cherries, and does so in large quantities. Its digestive system handles the coffee cherry just fine, but can’t digest the coffee seeds at the center, so those exit the Civet naturally later as part of weasel poop. At some point in history, some desperate coffee addict must have seen those and decided to harvest them, thus starting a poop coffee empire. Sure, the beans are washed well and roasted, so it’s not like you’re eating poop, but really…$200 per pound for coffee like that? Someone somewhere is laughing all the way to the bank with this one…
Add comment January 1st, 2006
