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Gourmet Dining - COLOMBIA SENSORY TRIAL What difference does variety make?2014-07-29
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Gourmet Dining - COLOMBIA SENSORY TRIAL What difference does variety make? Can a coffee variety bred for performance match a natural variety in aroma, fragrance, and taste? World Coffee Research (WCR) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) are partnering to find out. The Colombia Sensory Trial will subject two leading Colombian coffee varieties, Caturra and Castillo, to a rigorous, independent analysis to answer that question. Caturra is a natural mutation of the Bourbon variety that is well-regarded for taste and smell, but is susceptible to diseases, particularly coffee leaf rust. Castillo is a hybrid created by the Colombian coffee research institute Cenicafé, to maximize yields, disease resistance, and cup quality. The Colombia Sensory Tr...
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Coffee And Culture - Yunnan Coffee Trading Center settles in Pu’er2014-07-28
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Coffee And Culture - Yunnan Coffee Trading Center settles in Pu’er According to Pu’er Daily, the municipal government of Pu’er City and Kunming Jinyuan Flower Industry Co., Ltd. (Jinyuan Flower for short) held ceremonies on July 9 to mark the signing of an agreement on a collaboration project between the two and the initiation of that project. These occasions signified the formal commencement of the National Coffee Trading Center as a project as well as its settlement in Pu’er. Deputy Mayor Yang Weidong of Pu’er City said at the signing ceremony that coffee planting began in Pu’er over 100 years ago and that since the 1980s the coffee industry of Pu’er has gradually set foot on the path to becoming greater in scale and ind...
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Coffee At Your Side - A Major In Coffee? UC Davis Might Be Brewing One Up2014-07-25
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A Major In Coffee? UC Davis Might Be Brewing One Up The University of California, Davis, recently founded a Coffee Center dedicated to the study of the beloved brew. Many of us have those friends who insist that they're coffee connoisseurs and drink exclusively drip brews. But really, there aren't many academic programs that train people in the taste and science of coffee. That might all change soon. The University of California, Davis, recently founded a Coffee Center dedicated to the study of the world of java. This week, the center held its first research conference. "There aren't a lot of things that so many people consume several times a day, every day," saysJ. Bruce German, who directs of the Foods for Health Institute at Davis. But ...
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Coffee And Health - Coffee can cut risk of getting tinnitus，says study2014-07-24
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Coffee And Health - Coffee can cut risk of getting tinnitus，says study The findings, from a study involving nearly 70,000 women, suggest caffeine may have a protective effect against the condition – a constant ringing in the ears that can drive some victims to suicide. The Nurses Health Study II detailed the health and lifestyle habits of more than 65,000 nurses in the US. The Study, published in the American Journal of Medicine found that those who drank four or more cups of coffee a day were up to 20 per cent less at risk of developing the condition - which causes a persistent ringing in the ears. According to the Daily Mail, the monitoring of caffeine intake found that around 70 per cent of the intake was related to drinking coffee, b...
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Environment - Dr. Jane appealed the termination of the ivory trade in New Zealand2014-07-23
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Environment - Dr. Jane appealed the termination of the ivory trade in New Zealand Although hard to believe, but in New Zealand was actually one of the most rampant per capita worldwide ivory trade. Jane Goodall to New Zealand, please stop for elephant killings. New Zealand is the world's eightieth birthday, Dr. Jane tour stop. Needless to say, she is recognized as one of today's scientists and conservationists, thousands of people around them as saints, and that she had the inspiration to everyone. In the 1986 meeting, due to human activities and makes a lot of other species habitat is destroyed, a sharp decline in the number of each species facts surfaced, the scientists set sail from the dreamer realized that she could not go back to Tanzania rainfore...
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Coffee And Food - Cooks’ Esquires opens 14th Chinese store2014-07-22
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ASIA - Cooks’ Esquires opens 14th Chinese store Cooks Global Foods’ Beijing-based master franchisee has opened its 14th new Esquires store in China. The franchisee is a joint venture between local entrepreneur Ellen Zhang and the Yunnan Metropolitan Consturction & Investment Company (YMCI）, a real estate development business owned by the provincial government of Yunnan. Cooks (NZX:CGF) Chairman Keith Jackson attended the opening celebrations. Mr Jackson says the Chinese market is growing rapidly and is proving very resilient. “Esquires’ same store sales in China are ahead of last year by around 30 percent while overall sales are 80 per cent up on 2013,” Mr Jackson says. “M...
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Coffee And Culture - Phone box to become a coffee shop2014-07-21
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Coffee And Culture – Phone box to become a coffee shop LONDON – Thinking Outside the Box, which describes itself as a charitable trust supporting homelessness projects around the country, has applied to Southwark Council, in south east London, for permission to convert a phone box in St Thomas Street into a retail unit. The proposed kiosk would have a trading area of just 0.8 square metres and would incorporate a coffee machine and an ice cream freezer. Thinking Outside the Box has recently opened its first phone box coffee shop, Red Box Coffee, in Brighton. Source:http://www.comunicaffe.com/2014/06/24/uk-phone-box-become-coffee-shop/ Follow us on WeChat: ALUOKE 关注我们的公众微信： 阿罗科咖啡
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Coffee At Your Side - NSIGHT SPECIAL: ASIA COFFEE TRADE FLOWS2014-07-18
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Coffee At Your Side - NSIGHT SPECIAL: ASIA COFFEE TRADE FLOWS In the 20th century, coffee trade flows were a one way street. Green coffee flowed from origin to the consuming countries of North America, Europe and Japan. Some origin countries, like India and Brazil, built up a soluble manufacturing base, but this value-added coffee still flowed in the same way – from origin to the consuming countries. Fast forward to the 21st century, and the rise of Asia. Coffee trade flows have got a lot more complicated. The new consuming markets of South East Asia are all coffee producers, but there is a huge and growing trade of different types of green coffee, soluble coffee, and coffee mixes between these neighbours. CHINA In 2012/13, China p...
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Coffee And Health - Strong Coffee Could Be Good For Your Teeth2014-07-17
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Coffee And Health - Strong Coffee Could Be Good For Your Teeth MILAN- Drinking strong coffee on a regular basis could help to keep the teeth clean and healthy, suggests s study. But the coffee must be drunk without milk, cream or sugar as these will have a counterproductive effect, scientists say. A research by Rio de Janeiro’s Federal University, published in the journal of Applied Microbiology, examined the impact of an extract of Coffea canephora – known as robusta – on milk teeth. Researchers cultivated biofilms on fragments of milk teeth, donated to research by children, using bacteria in saliva. The findings of the study showed that the bean helped to destroy a film of bacteria found on milk teeth, which subsequently prevented the fo...
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Coffee and Food – Starbucks announces hike in prices2014-06-26
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Coffee and Food – Starbucks announces hike in prices MILAN – Starbucks is planning to raise prices for certain coffee beverages this week, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Beginning Tuesday, some beverages in Starbucks U.S. company-operated stores will increase by between five cents and 20 cents. A 20-ounce, venti-sized cup of brewed coffee, for example, will cost ＄2.35, an increase of either 10 cents or 15 cents. The price change will vary depending on different areas of the country. The price for Starbucks-branded ground and whole-bean coffees sold in grocery, drug and mass retail stores will increase by about 8 percent on average, starting July 21. The move comes just weeks after J.M. Smucker Co raised list prices of i...
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