Can Coffee Help You Live Longer?
Nicolas Flamel was a French scribe who, if the legend is to be believed, discovered the Philosopher’s Stone. As well as being able to turn common, base metals in gold, the alchemical substance is also capable of extending one’s life.
Flamel certainly did exist (he was born in the French commune of Pontoise and died, in 1418, in Paris), but there’s been no proof of the Philosopher’s Stone’s has ever been found.
However, a study, which was recently published in the journal Circulation, has found that people who drink a moderate amount of coffee tend to live longer.
So is coffee the Philosopher’s Stone? …continue reading Can Coffee Help You Live Longer?
Coffee Farming in Northern Ireland?
Coffee is primarily grown in ‘The Bean Belt’, the colloquial term to the countries that lie between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. It is in this geographical area that the fruit thrives; the climate is the perfect mixture of warm and wet, and the terrain – think mountains, rolling hills, rich soils and plenty of forests and jungles – isn’t half bad either. Every single major coffee producing nation lies within the Bean Belt.
But all that could change in the near future if an experiment in Northern Ireland proves to be successful. A coffee company based in Lisburn has teamed up with David Patterson, a landscape gardener, to grow coffee plants in the country.
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Our Award-Winning Coffees
We sell some truly brilliant coffees.
It’s a line that you’d expect to be trotted out. Everybody likes to proclaim that their product is the best around and in that sense, we’re no different. But when we say that we sell some really great-tasting coffees, we aren’t lying: We have the awards to prove it.
Lately, we’ve sent a small sample of our selection of coffee beans off to the judges at the Great Taste Awards.
Known as the ‘Oscars of the food world’, this annual competition brings together leading lights of the food and beverage world to see which products are the best available and, therefore, worthy of being awarded Gold Star status.
The coffees below have all been bestowed with at least a gold star in recent Great Taste Awards. So as we said, don’t just take our word on the quality of our coffee! …continue reading Our Award-Winning Coffees
A Decaffeinated Coffee Shop: A Halloween Horror Story?
At the end of last week the baristas of one temporary coffee shop in New York served their last espresso and closed the doors of the one-time gas station. The coffee shop had signalled the onset of the apocalypse; was the embodiment of hipsterism gone mad; was a modern day horror story for Halloween, and could force the ‘city that never sleeps’ to get some much needed shut eye.
Worse than that, it was run by a couple of “Canadian weirdos”.
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