Making Your Perfect Cup of Coffee—One Cup at a Time
The French press may well be the world’s best method of brewing coffee. Unfortunately, it isn’t always the best method if you want to brew just one cup. Sometimes if you’re by yourself, one cup is all you need. You certainly don’t want to make a pot full pot and have to keep warming it up. How, then, will you make that one perfect cup of coffee you long for?
This is where the individual drip coffee cone comes in handy. Melitta makes one just the right size for one 8-ounce mug of coffee. It fits perfectly on the rim of most coffee mugs and uses a #2 filter. If you’re only planning to drink one cup of coffee, this is definitely the best way to go. Here are a few tips to help you make that one cup of coffee exactly right for you.
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Buy Haitian Coffee, Help Haitian Recovery
Haitian Bleu Coffee is considered by some to be one of the world’s best coffees. J.L Hufford, renowned seller of outstanding coffees, calls it “perfectly balanced with rich flavor, snappy acidity, and wonderful mellow body”. Koffee Attributes, an online coffee rating website, gives it the high mark of three in acidity, aroma, body and flavor. Unfortunately, you can’t get it in the United States right now because Haiti sold last year’s entire very small crop to France.
Since colonial times, Arabic coffee has been one of Haiti’s major exports. However, because Haiti has an abundance of weather troubles, the crops are often destroyed by either hurricane or drought. This has made the island’s income from coffee sporadic and unreliable. Still, coffee export remained an important factor in the Haitian economy despite the problems in achieving consistent levels of production. It was only moderately profitable even in the best years.
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Coffee May Prevent the Onset of Type II diabetes
It’s no real news that diabetes is on the rise. The American Diabetes Association says that there are 23.7 million diabetic people living in America alone. It’s estimated that 25 years from now that number will be 44 million. The vast majority of these cases are type II diabetes. However, there is some good news. Over the past decade, several studies have indicated that drinking coffee may decrease some people’s chances of getting type II diabetes.
Recently a research team in Australia examined 18 regarding how much coffee was consumed by people with or and without type II diabetes, and found something interesting. They confirmed that people who drank coffee had a lower risk of getting type II diabetes, but they also discovered that the more coffee the participants in the study drank, the less risk of diabetes they had. People who drank two cups of coffee a day were 14% less to get diabetes than people who drank no coffee at all, while those who drank 5 cups a day were 35% less likely to get it. The same results occurred whether the coffee had caffeine or not.
Continue reading Comments (0) brewed on Feb 2nd, 2010
Can Starbuck’s Provide a Sound Track for your Life?
Do you sometimes think your life might be easier if you could set it to music the way they do in movies? I don’t mean whipping out your mp3 player and picking the right track for running on your treadmill. I mean music to match what’s happening right that moment simply switching on at then and there. What music would be appropriate for your life?
Maybe you want to walk back to the office to burn off the calories you just consumed at lunch. You’re filling full and a little sluggish, though, and you don’t really want to do it. Would it help your legs to move a little faster if you could hear some music that matches the rhythm of your walk, something like the Bee Gees singing “Stayin’ Alive”?
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