In the past months, the whole world has witnessed the unfolding of a modern-day financial recession. The effect of the global financial crisis seriously hit the US, the UK, and other developed countries. Discretionary spending slowed down in these nations. It is no surprise at all that many famous coffee shop chains also experienced the crunch. In fact, the top coffee network chain worldwide significantly trimmed the number of its locations in the US long before the crisis erupted. This is an indication that most coffee drinkers and coffee lovers are choosing to stay at home to brew their coffee.

Thinner wallets have prompted consumers to be practical. Now, many coffee lovers are heading to local coffee roasters and supermarkets to find and buy coffee beans and roasted coffee. Fewer… Continue reading Coffee Lovers React to Recession

Drinking coffee, by and large, is one of modern man’s exquisite pleasures. Coffee literally perks one up from the doldrums of everyday life. It elevates one’s spirits whenever it is needed.

The big bonus, of course, is the current list of good news about coffee consumption. Through the years, it has been discovered that coffee, aside from the pleasurable drink that it is, actually helps boost a person’s health in so many ways.

Here they are in arbitrary order.

Coffee as an antioxidant.

Grapes, cranberries and dates are high in antioxidants aside from their vitamins and minerals. Yet, people get more antioxidants from coffee than from these fruits or other vegetables.

One reason we get our antioxidants from coffee is that we simply consume more of it than any other source of antioxidants… Continue reading Coffee Health Benefits

Through the years since it was discovered, coffee had acquired a long and colorful history. As such, it had gained some very colorful historical sidelights through the ages. Here are some of them, collected by some ardent scribes for their novelty perhaps, or for some other reasons known only to them.

Of course, for the modern reader, some of these anecdotes and declarations sounded apocryphal and dubious. For all they’re worth, here are some of them.

Coffee or divorce
In Turkey, bridegrooms were once required to make a promise during their wedding ceremonies to always provide their new wives with coffee. Failure to do so would be grounds for divorce.

The sniff squad
Once in Germany, the government hired a special force group known as Kaffee Schnufflers. Their duty? Sniff out the illicit… Continue reading Coffee: Facts Or Trivia