Review of Seattle’s Best Breakfast Blend (ground)
There seems to be a steady increase of higher quality coffees appearing in the supermarkets. Coffee drinkers are now finding brand names that they have only seen in coffee houses on grocery’s shelves. While some of these can still be very pricey, up to $15.00 for twelve-ounce bags, the price is coming down. Some coffees are about one dollar less per package now than they were a few months ago.
Seattle’s Best, owned by Starbuck’s, is one of the more frequently seen high quality coffees available these days. While it is not as highly priced as some brands, it is definitely more costly than the household-name brands. Depending on which store is selling it, Seattle’s best can run from $5.99 to $7.99 per package. Compared to some others that start at $13.00 per package, this is a much better price.
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Brazilian Study Finds Coffee May Reduce Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women
We heard earlier this year about a study in Australia that said coffee might prevent Type 2 diabetes. Now there is news of a second study conducted in University of Sao Paulo in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil that had similar results. Dr. Daniela S. Sartorelli, who conducted the study, compared women who drank coffee to those who did not. Those who drank at least one cup a day had one third less chance of developing Type 2 diabetes.
There was one big difference between this study and the one done in Australia, however. Dr. Sartorelli found that this was only true when the women drank coffee with lunch. Coffee drinking at any other time of day had no effect on the risk of developing diabetes. According to Sarotelli, this could be because of the time of day or the foods eaten at lunch.
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Folgers Coffee Ad from the Fifties
Advertisers like to convince us that we just cannot live without their products, whether it is true or not. Usually the commercials imply one of two things, neither of which is pleasant. One is that if we do not have this thing, we are not one of the elite and therefore losers. The other is that we are just too completely incompetent to do the simplest tasks without it.
How many of us grew up believing that is its hard, almost impossible, to cook rice correctly? That is why we just had to buy the instant rice that made it impossible to make rice wrong. For four decades now, we have been told that paper diapers are better for our papers than cloth. After all, no one could admit that using them was a great big convenience, something no “good” mother would admit.
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Don Francisco’s Colombia Supremo, a Coffee Review
Don Francisco Gavina is the founder of the coffee company F. Gavina and Sons Inc. According to their website, the Gavina family has been producing coffee for over 100 years. Don Francisco, born in the southern mountains of Cuba, grew up on his family’s coffee plantation. As a child, he learned which coffee beans were best and how to roast them. In turn, he taught his children all he had learned from his father, adding his experience.
Today his four children carry on his traditions in Vernon, California, where the company is now headquartered. Gavina is currently amongst the largest and most successful coffee roasters in the western United States. Producing more than 36 million pounds of coffee a year, they’ve become the nation's largest privately held minority-owned coffee roaster. Their gourmet coffee is Southern California’s leading retail brand and amongst the top ten brands in the United States.
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