Kettle and Cup

Starbuck’s Berry Chai Infusion

While I was at Starbucks yesterday the barista brought me a sample of the new Berry Chai Infusion.

It is a deep garnet red, a beautiful, almost winey color with a tart, make-your-mouth-water aroma that makes you want to hold the cup with both hands and breathe in the steam.

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Starbucks New Tea Lattes:London Fog

Oddly enough after I wrote the post yesterday I got two coupons in the mail for free Starbuck’s Tea Lattes.  And, in an even bigger, more strange turn of events a friend called after church today and asked if I would like to meet her at Starbucks for coffee.

It was thus ordained in the Heavenlies that I try the new tea  lattes.

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Taking Tea…At Starbucks

Starbucks seems to be grasping at anything that will keep it afloat.

I never like to see  a company do too many changes all at once.  It always reminds me of what insecure teen age girls do when they experience their first break up.  Anyway… Starbucks is going to be adding more tea items to the menu and expanding all things tea at the stores.

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Coffee & Tea Resolutions for 2009

I love New Year’s Day.  I am always ready for Christmas to be over (more so this year than usual) and move on into the clean slate of the new year.  I was up very late last night/this morning working on some last minute deadlines and finally dragged myself into the bed at 4 a.m.  So I am laying here,in the warmth of the flannel sheets, sunlight streaming into my bedroom, sipping the last of my cup of coffee and thinking of the year that lays ahead.

It is a good day to do that.  It is transition time, nothing happening one way or another for most people.  A chance to consider and reflect.

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Biscotti Isn’t So Hard

I love biscotti.  I learned how to make it several years ago and, although I don’t make it nearly enough, it is much simpler than most people think…In fact..if you can make chocolate chip cookies you can make biscotti.

Once you have a basic recipe down then you can branch out and add things to it like nuts, chocolate, dried fruit, or whatever.

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Wine, Chocolate, and Tea Good for Memory

So, it seems that drinking half a glass of  wine, eating four (not six, not two…but four) squares of chocolate or drinking a cup of tea increased the ability to remember things…especially in older people.

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Do You Caffeinate Here Often?

With so much emphasis put on the slow food movement and eating locally, and I can tell you that I am a firm believer in that, is it possible to cafeinate locally when you live somewhere other than a coffee growing area?  How about tea?

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The True Comfort Foods

In case you ever wondered chocolate and coffee are the true comfort foods.  In fact, coffee and chocolate consumption is up over all, while consumers have chosen to deny themselves the other pleasures of life in the economical slump which seems to be occurring.

I say seems to be because I haven’t seen it.  The stores were packed all week and shoppers seemed to be carrying a fair number of bags.  Marc and I live very simply for the most part so what others tend to see as economic slow down is just business as usual for us.

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Made for a Man……But I Like It Too

If you remember that Irish Spring commercial then you are old.

I remember it.

Ahem….Anyway the University of Barcelona has done a study on the effects of a strong cup of coffee on men and women.

For the study they used 668 volunteers.  This is odd.  Why not 670?  665? Nope.  668.  Healthy volunteers.

And I think it was weird they felt the need to say “healthy volunteers.”  I mean who chooses sick people to test coffee?

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Sulawesi Toraja Does Not Mean, “Merry Christmas”, in Swahili

…But it is still a very good coffee. Sulawesi Toraja is an Indonesian coffee bean with an unusual brightness for a coffee from that region.  It isn’t especially fragrant when you open the bag…In fact I was sort of disappointed because I like when that good coffee aroma fills the kitchen.

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