Who’s Drinking “Real Elephant Dung” Coffee?

    From The Lush, Scenic, Greene, Majestic Hills of Thailand come a rare and delicate drink: Coffee Grown from Elephant Dung!    The Coffee   GOLDEN TRIANGLE, Thailand — In the lush hills of northern Thailand, a herd of 20 elephants is excreting some of the world’s most expensive coffee. Trumpeted as earthy in […]

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13 Yummy Twitpics That Prove Fall Is The Most Awesome Season… AND It’s Here

Will Autumn comes many wonderful things… Sweater Weather, Brisk Days, Fall Holidays, Changing of The Leaves and…..  Harvest Season Food. Pumpkin, Apples, Nuts Oh So Many Treats Flavored with Cinnamon and other Autumn Spices… and of course, prepackaged and fast food goodies galore commemorating the season.   Following is a list of some twitter users favorites… […]

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Starbucks Looks for a Fresh Jolt

I’m walking up to a starbucks with Howard Schultz when we spot a barista standing in the parking lot, passing 11 cups of coffee through a car window. “I’ve never seen that,” says Schultz, who took over Starbucks in 1987 and transformed it from a six-shop seller of beans into a thread that runs through our social tapestry

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Brewing Battle: Starbucks vs. McDonald’s

Over my morning coffee , I read the news this week that a battle is brewing between Starbucks and McDonald’s. According to the story, McDonald’s is planning to capitalize on the public’s willingness to pay $4 for a cup of coffee by hiring baristas and dropping espresso machines in 14,000 of their fast-food outlets.

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National Coffee Day: Do You Know What’s in Your Joe?

National Coffee Day: Do You Know What’s in Your Joe? It’s National Coffee Day and Americans are scrambling to grab their free cup of coffee (more on that in a minute). But not all coffee is created equally and before you double down on a double latte, it’s good to know the health effects, good […]

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Tiny librarian is hell on wheels

She’s petite, she’s middle-aged, she’s bookish, and if she gets a chance, she’ll knock you on your keister. By day, she’s Beth Hollis, a 53-year-old reference librarian in Akron, Ohio. By night, she’s MegaBeth, an ageless dynamo on the roller derby rink

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‘The September Issue’: Humanizing the Devil

Going into The September Issue, a documentary chronicling the production of a single, record-breakingly huge issue of Vogue in 2007, we already knew that the magazine’s editor, Anna Wintour, wears Prada, drinks Starbucks and favors sunglasses indoors and that her weapon of choice is more frosty glare than flaming pitchfork.

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