Starbucks Coffee Company Introduces Exclusive Espresso Experience for the Holidays (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance) This holiday season, Starbucks Coffee Company introduces an exclusive espresso experience, the Starbucks Sirena Semi-Automatic Espresso Machine and Espresso Regalo coffee. In development for more than two years, Sirena was born from an innovative collaboration between Starbucks, BMW Group DesignworksUSA and Saeco Italy....more...Gourmet coffee shop changes with the seasons (Daily Southtown) It's 2 p.m. on a weekday, and the line at the lunch counter at Caffe Milan in Frankfort extends almost to the front door. ...more... Starbucks plugs in new espresso machine (USA Today) Starbucks (SBUX) may have figured out a way to make its near-$4 Caffe Latte seem like a bargain: It's rolling out a $599 Starbucks espresso machine this holiday....more... Brewing success (Calgary Sun) Pushing into a market dominated by giants such as Tim Hortons and Starbucks might seem a reckless endeavour, but Michael Going and Nan Eskenazi do not see it that way....more... Madison Avenue meets Woodstock at SOA protest (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer) B een there. Done that. Got a T-shirt. A nice one, too, bought at the SOA Watch Shopping Center, a lineup of folding tables that offers items every serious protester should own....more... Brewing success (Toronto Sun) Alberta-based coffee chain is percolating franchise deals...more... Good Earth branches out (London Free Press) Pushing into a market dominated by giants such as Tim Hortons and Starbucks might seem a reckless endeavor, but Michael Going and Nan Eskenazi aren't worried....more... Coffee Shop Culture (Michigan Daily) 1 Rendez Vous Café The only coffee shop for miles with a threatening warning that they I.D., Rendez Vous Café on South University Avenue adds hookah to the usual caffeinated lineup. Just a block away from language-intensive Residential College in East Quad and acting as an impromptu office for more than one language tutor, Rendez Vous, open late, emits a European feel, even if most patrons have ......more... The Gulden Coffee Story (Environmental News Network) n 2002, I brought my husband Cem to visit the coffee regions of Colombia where I grew up. Traveling through these rural areas was like taking a journey back in time. The regions are unspoiled by modern development. Coffee growers tend to their crops with deep devotion, following a process that has been handed down for generations. When we witnessed the age-old tradition where beans are hand ......more... |