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Coffee from the Grocery Store

Question: "Hey you said not to buy whole coffee beans from grocery stores b..

Posted 02/01

Portland ChocolateFest 2012

I love Portland, Oregon and I wish I spent more time here...

Posted 01/29

Portland ChocolateFest 2012 - it's on!

The first person to help me see chocolate in a new light was Dave Cook, own..

Posted 01/16

When in Doubt, Buy Cuisinart

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Posted 01/14

Black & Decker SmartBrew DCM2500 - Report Card Score: 71%

This is the one coffee maker available for under , available from Cooking...

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Golden Rules of Coffee

When it's all said, making a good cup of coffee at home is not a complicated thing. In fact, you only need to remember a small number of fundamental rules to make good coffee. How many of those rules you adhere to is up to you.


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Coffee Taste Terms

You don't need to be a coffee connaisseur to make good coffee at home. You'll know what you like and dislike about any coffee you try, without a sense of taste sophisticated enough to know that one has a more "winy" aroma or "clean" taste than another.


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Roast Style and Flavor

There are many factors affecting the flavor of your coffee. Naturally, the origin of the bean and the care with which it has been treated will affect the coffee in your cup, and so will the darkness of how roasted the coffee bean has been.


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Kinds of Coffee

It's common knowledge that there is a wide flavor spectrum of teas, but it's less understood how many different kinds of coffee exist. The basic categories of coffee are: single-estate, single-origin, and blends.


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Cafe Mocha Recipes

Mocha is the word that marries coffee and chocolate. Only the trained linguist could explain how this word has become confused between the two over the years. 'Mocha flavoring' has become synonymous with chocolate, but Mocha coffee refers to the Arabian Mocha bean that's been exported out of Yemen, the birthplace of coffee, for a long, long time.