Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
-Jonathan Swift
Coffee has been a love interest of mine for many, many years, but it wasn’t until my first trip to Italy that I truly discovered how rich and divine a beverage these beans can yield.
Upon waking for breakfast my first day in Venice, I [...]
Back in the early 90’s I had a guilty pleasure – yes I was only a young kid – of drinking a Maxwell House product called Cappio. It was a ready-to-drink iced cappucino beverage sold in supermarkets which came in a curiously large, brown tinted glass bottle that looked oddly like a “40“. [...]
Located on the main pedestrian thoroughfare in coffee-centric Burlington, VT, Uncommon Grounds offers some of the best and most fresh coffee in town.
With a very wide selection of beans from most of the coffee growing countries stored right in their burlap bags in bulk in the store, they regularly roast in-house to assure the freshest [...]
In a nod to my good friend Cliff over at spiralbound.net, I here share a story picked up via the Associated Press entitled Washington Official Held in Coffee Mug Attack.
Fire commissioners Allen Yanity and Jim Bosch – both of Lakebay, Washington and aged 71 and 64, respectively – are in the midst of a year-long [...]
Cold Mountain Cafe, Bethlehem, NH
Those who have read any of my other reviews have by now discovered that I have a penchant for finding out-of-the-way cafes in obscure backwaters that often function as a beacon of light in the middle of nowhere. Cold Mountain Cafe is no exception to this rule.
Bethlehem, NH is a [...]