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This article is part of our special Back To School Week series: The Quaker Oats Company, an American carbohydrate concern with more than a hundred years of brand-recognition, have recently introduced the “True Delights: Hazelnut Latte” flavor to their line of…

This article is part of our special Back To School Week series: America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. Sometimes we Americans express this freedom and bravery by throwing scalding hot coffee in…

What’s the one thing held in common between James Hoffmann, former WBC champ and don of Square Mile Roasters, and the character Tevye from “Fiddler on the Roof”? Both men have thoughts on the concept of tradition. From JimSeven.com: I’m a little conflicted…

Congratulations to Matt Miletto and BaristaExchange.com, who recently announced the addition of their 10,000th member! We’re truly impressed and inspired by Barista Exchange’s ingenuity, growth, and steady climb in presence and popularity. We know Matt couldn’t do it without lots of support, and…

Andrew Barnett, founder of Ecco Cafe and noted gentleman, has teamed with the San Francisco Gate to blog his take on the relationship between coffee, restaurants, and culture in the Bay Area. His opening salvo features some rather pointed statements on the…

The coffee world’s favorite curmudgeon is considering bringing back the dark roast. Our friend Rich at Aldo Coffee explains: Given what we’re planning to do here (and we still aren’t divulging the details), it’s quite possible that we may…

8. A barista should never utter these words: “We don’t do…” You can’t control all the weird things you’re asked by the public, but you can control how you respond. If someone says “can I get a triple caramel…

Fresh roasted coffee needs more than a few minutes to rest before brewing. It doesn’t take a Director of Advancing Ingenuity and Developing Brilliance to tell you that. Entertaining video, beautiful device, terrible coffee. Best served for roasting Kopi Luwak, on your…

Full immersion + filter + ice = Summer of Hoffmann! The idea with this is to brew double strength coffee straight onto ice. As the ice melts it chills and dilutes the coffee back to more normal strengths. Often…

If you open up 16,000+ locations, this sort of thing is bound to happen: A 38-year-old man plunged to his death near a coffee shop in Manhattan yesterday, police said, after leaping from an upper East Side building just after 6 p.m.…