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The Phoenix Coffee Crawl

Published Feb. 2, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

What is better than visiting one awesome coffee shop? Visiting five, right in a row! My Aunt Jackie and I had the pleasure last month of participating in a Phoenix area “Coffee Crawl” and it was a blast ...

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Best In Show 8

Published Jan. 21, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Coffee comics from Best in Show ...

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CC: The Sweet Life Bakery

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Published Jan. 20, 2010 at 11:14 p.m.

'What's does "CC" mean? Subject: The Sweet Life Bakery ... Location visited: Vineland, NJFree WiFi ? : noRating: 4+ [see key]Albeit coffee and sweets are natural friends, I have not seen many bakeries that serve good coffee, never mind good espresso. Usually, it's just an aging pot of coffee sitting next to heavily-iced cakes.Yet things seem to be swinging around at some confectioneries, ...

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Blade Coffee Grinders

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Published Jan. 18, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Though coffee lovers are eager to spend tons of money on a huge variety of expensive coffee machines, they often forget to buy themselves a coffee bean grinder! ...

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Drip Coffee Or Espresso?

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Published Jan. 17, 2010 at 12:46 a.m.

What’s the difference between drip coffee and espresso? Check out this really old post from our archives to read about the details ... For now, let’s just say that drip coffee is what we normally make at home using the “regular” coffee maker ... Espresso is made with a different kind of machine (espresso [ ... ] ...

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Best In Show 7

Published Jan. 13, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

More comics from Best In Show ...

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Coffee Beans vs. Cells

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Published Jan. 10, 2010 at 6:57 a.m.

Do you know how big a coffee bean is compared to a single skin cell? This infographic on genetics and scale takes a look at the scale of skin cells, mitochondria and more ... all compared to a single coffee bean. Cool! ... Photo (c) Marko Goodwin ... Coffee Beans vs. Cells originally appeared on About.com Coffee / Tea on Sunday, January 10th, 2010 at 11:57:11 ... Permalink Comment Email this ...

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Tea Photos

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Published Jan. 5, 2010 at 2:50 p.m.

The beauty of tea has been celebrated in poetry and art for thousands of years. It's no wonder that, now, images of the thousands of teas created around the world are becoming widely available online. One of my goals as the About Coffee/Tea Guide is to create a database of tea photos ... I recently added two new image galleries of tea photos to the site. One is on tea types. It includes information on the processing, origins and flavors behind white, green, oolong, black and puer teas. The other

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Coffee From Thailand

Published Dec. 30, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

Nacha coffee, a grower based in Chiangmai, Thailand, produces a strain of Arabica Typica that will win over anyone skeptical of the taste quality of South East Asian coffees ...

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