Hoe, hoe, hoe
My sandy-haired, gap-toothed daughter has written "I love Daddy" in green chalk on the driveway, and of course it's gratifying to get this endorsement, but a father is never sure if he's doing the...
View ArticleThe Frappuccino generation
It's just before 6 p.m. on a Wednesday night in Oakland, Calif., and the Starbucks on Lakeshore Avenue is packed. It has all the usual trappings of bland urbanity and sophistication: brick walls behind...
View ArticleLet them drink tea
Here's an interesting way to help young women succeed in the business world in 2007: Teach them how to host a tea party. No, I'm not kidding. According to the Hartford Courant, contestants in the Miss...
View ArticleIs this the end of organic coffee?
Enjoy your organic coffee now, while it's hot -- because it may not be around for long. Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture quietly released a ruling that alarmed organic certifiers and...
View ArticleBeing Juan Valdez
You know Juan Valdez: He's been the rugged, mustachioed icon of Colombian coffee since 1960. That's when a Madison Avenue ad agency, realizing the potential of campesino cachet, invented a name even...
View ArticleOn coffee and miscarriages
Is your daily cup of coffee raising your chances of a miscarriage? That's what a study, published Monday in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, suggests. According to the New York Times,...
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Mr. Wong, meet No. 44
Salon / Caitlin Shamberg Wong Kar-wai, director of "My Blueberry Nights." So there I was, waiting for the elevator in the Regency Hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The Regency is pretty much a...
View ArticleThe Starbucks economy
Forget about the millions of foreclosures, rising unemployment, gas and food price inflation -- you want to know how to tell the economy is really tanking? Americans are cutting back on their morning...
View ArticleMy Laughing Buddha is smirking
The heads of the children climbing all over my Laughing Buddha keep breaking off. This is causing me some distress. I've been hanging out with this Buddha for a while. I'm not a man of great faith --...
View ArticleGood to the last drop
Journalist Michaele Weissman says she had her first real cup of coffee in 2005; everything before that was "hot water and Ritalin." The revelation came in the form of a double-shot 12-ounce cappuccino...
View ArticleThe meaning of Starbucks
Two months ago, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz told Time magazine that "For the first time in our history as a company, we have negative traffic this year vs. last." This week, the other shoe dropped. In...
View ArticleHigh tea at Google takes a hit
Times are tough all over! The Wall Street Journal reports that Google, "one of the most extravagant spenders of the boom years," has finally "begun to tighten its belt."Even some employee perks are...
View ArticleWhere the bitter turns sweet: Vietnamese coffee
My 20-year-old self would give me an open hand across the face for saying this, but: You know, colonialism wasn't all bad. It gave rise, for instance, to Vietnamese coffee.I understand if you need to...
View ArticleCoffee will kill you (or not)
Coffee lovers have had a few good reasons to feel good about themselves recently. Recent studies have disproven the notion that the beverage causes heart disease and cancer, and, not only that, it...
View ArticleBaristas gone wild: Meet fourth-wave coffee
Rejoice! Fourth-wave coffee is here, and its name is Slayer. And no, it's not a coffee-themed WWE wrestler -- the Slayer is a tricked-out, handmade espresso machine, and if the buzz is to be believed,...
View ArticleWhat “true” espresso is, and how Americans ruin it
Giorgio Milos, the master barista at the high-end Trieste, Italy-based illy – whose familiar red logo adorns cans of quality coffee in 140 countries – stands inside a trendy downtown coffee shop in New...
View ArticleNineteen Guatemala coffee workers die in truck crash
A livestock truck packed with workers on their way to a Guatemala coffee plantation veered off a winding road and crashed, killing 19 of the passengers and injuring 44, an official said Monday.Nine of...
View ArticleStarbucks announces the Trenta, their largest size ever
Like Starbucks coffee? Well, now you can like a lot more of it all at once.The Seattle-bassed coffee company announced today that it would offer a new size of coffee in the spring: Trenta. Clocking in...
View ArticleSalon’s Great Coffee Art contest
Update: So sorry if the entry you sent to coffee@salon.com bounced back. Everything's fixed! Please give it another shot.Latte art, pouring "textured" milk into espresso to create designs -- and in...
View ArticleDoes coffee make you hear things?
Scholars at Australia's La Trobe University just released a study showing a correlation between caffeine intake and auditory hallucinations. In layman's terms: Lots of coffee might make you more likely...
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