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Jimmy Java!
Added June 23, 2008: "The Confusing Coffee Bean"
Sunday, June 15, 2008: From: The Ottawa Citizen
Bean-worthy baristas prepare for battle
In a little loft tucked away in the Glebe, eight baristas are dreaming of the big leagues of coffee.
On countertops dusted with coffee grinds, they practise endlessly -- grinding, tamping and pouring cup after cup in the hope of one day becoming Canada's barista champion. Amid the coffee fumes and the mechanical humming of espresso machines, they work with a stopwatch on hand, hoping to end up at the summer regionals or the nationals in October.
"It's as much a science as an art form," says Laura Perry, a coffee aficionado from Ottawa who has been training to compete at the eastern regional championship in Montreal on Sunday and Monday. "I am nervous and I am really excited." From: NZ Herald
Coffee culture
The story of coffee reads like an archetypal mythical tale - it has heroes, adventures, travel, subterfuge, ordeals and finally the return of the magic elixir.
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March 21, 2008: From United Press International
Researchers find uses for old coffee
ROME, March 21 (UPI) -- Italian researchers say the leftover dregs from the estimated 70 million cups of coffee that are made daily in Italy could be used to fuel stoves and boilers.
The researchers said the coffee dregs can be converted into a "clean" organic fuel for the appliances, ANSA reported Friday.
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We hope we know what you'll answer for question #5!
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Cooking With Coffee
Like so many of us, Trish Magwood loves her morning java jolt.
The TV host and bestselling cookbook author says she drinks a cup of coffee at home every morning, and then, when she gets to work, she'll down a second cup at Dish, her Toronto-based culinary school and store.
But these days, Magwood, whose show, Party Dish, airs on Food Network Canada and Slice, isn't just drinking coffee. She's cooking with it, too.
Professor helps students explore world through coffee
Bridgewater, Mass. -
Something is brewing in Professor James Hayes-Bohanan's geography courses.
Hayes-Bohanan, 44, offers a bottomless cup of geography in his two Bridgewater State College courses: the Geography of Coffee, with study tours to Nicaraguan coffee farms, and the Secret Life of Coffee, in which students make connections with a map, photograph and cup of joe.
"As a geographer, I like things that express something about place," said Hayes-Bohanan, an associate professor and chairman of the college's geography department.
"Coffee helps me establish connections to places and makes it a little more interesting," he said.
For the home-decorators out there, a couple very neat coffee tables:
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Tuesday June 19, 2007:
From BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6757825.stm
Drinking coffee protects against an eyelid spasm that can lead to blindness, a study suggests.
Italian researchers looked at the coffee drinking and smoking habits of 166 people with blepharospasm.
Sufferers have uncontrollable twitching of the eyelid which, in extreme cases, stops them being able to see.
One or two cups of coffee a day seemed to reduce the risk of the condition, the team reported in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.
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