The best cure for a hangover is a cup of coffee and an aspirin. Scientists have confirmed that the traditional morning-after boost is better than modern alternatives like organic honey, or a raw egg, reports express.co.uk. The caffeine in coffee and anti-inflammatory ingredients of aspirin combat the alcohol, said Philadelphia researcher Michael Oshinsky. He discovered [...]
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Hangover? Coffee is the best bet
January 19th, 2011 |
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Starbucks New Size: The Trenta!
January 18th, 2011 |
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Need something larger than a Venti? Coffee giant Starbucks wants latte lovers to sip on its newest offering – The Trenta – a 31 oz beverage hitting shops this spring. Starbucks has launched a new super-sized coffee cup which holds nearly a quarter of a gallon of coffee. The company, which celebrated its 30th anniversary [...]
Starbucks v Kraft: A double shot of discord
January 6th, 2011 |
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The kings of coffee brawl with the monarchs of macaroni
STARBUCKS once seemed so unstoppable that the Onion, a satirical paper, joked about a new Starbucks opening in the restroom of an existing Starbucks. Yet by January 2008, when Howard Schultz, the coffee chain’s most effective boss, returned as chief executive, it was rapidly declining. Mr Schultz closed stores, shed staff, slimmed the supply chain and arrested Starbucks’s slide. In fiscal 2010 the firm’s operating margins rebounded to 13.8%, the highest in its 40-year history.
One of the problems Mr Schultz found, after a review of the business, was in the way Starbucks-brand coffee was sold in supermarkets. The so-called consumer-packaged goods (CPG) business is handled by Kraft, America’s biggest food company, which is best known for having mastered the art of mixing macaroni with cheese. …
Julia Roberts Lavazza Commercial — “Pretty Woman†Pockets $1.5 Million For Non-Speaking Role In Italian Coffee Ad
December 1st, 2010 |
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When you’re Pretty Woman Julia Roberts, a smile and wink is worth a million bucks… Or in this case two million. The Eat, Pray, Love Oscar winner is the talk of the blogosphere this week after she pocketed $1.5 million to appear in a non-speaking role in a new 45-second commercial promo for Italian coffee [...]
Jake Gyllenhaal Taylor Swift Photographed Together On Coffee Run
November 29th, 2010 |
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Got’cha! We don’t see them together much, but one quick-thinking fan snapped a rare shot of Taylor Swift, 21, and May/December man-thang Jake Gyllenhaal out for coffee in Nashville over the Thanksgiving weekend. Could it be? Has Jakey officially entered his first serious relationship since calling it quits with Reese Witherspoon more than a year [...]
Taylor Swift, Jake Gyllenhaal spent Thanksgiving Day together?
November 27th, 2010 |
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Love Story’ singer Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal reportedly celebrated Thanksgiving Day together, fuelling romance rumours. The pair first sparked rumours of a relationship after they were spotted holding hands during a stroll around Brooklyn, New York last month (Oct10). And despite telling reporters she planned to spend the holiday with family in Missouri, Swift [...]
Sugar-sweetened coffee ‘boosts memory, attention span’
November 27th, 2010 |
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Sugar-sweetened coffee may be the best way to prepare the brain for a busy day ahead, say scientists. Researchers at the University of Barcelona in Spain found that taking caffeine and sugar at the same time boosted the brain’s performance more than taking them on their own. They now believe each one boosts the effect [...]
Olam is considering investing in Ethiopian coffee plantations
September 28th, 2010 |
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Olam International, the Singapore commodities trader in talks for a merger with Louis Dreyfus Commodities, is considering investing in coffee plantations in Ethiopia, Chief Executive Officer Sunny Verghese said at a conference in Sydney today.
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Coffee break proving painful for Liz Hurley
September 13th, 2010 |
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Actress Elizabeth Hurley says she has given up coffee but insists she feels restless after the sacrifice. “Third day, no coffee, can’t move my head without searing pain,†the Daily Express quoted her as tweeting. “Typical, no caffeine has changed me into an insomniac,†she added. Liz already revealed that she was shedding pounds by [...]
June 9, 1902: Put a Nickel In, Take Your Food Out
June 9th, 2010 |
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1902: Joe Horn and Frank Hardart open the Automat at 818 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia. It’s America’s first coin-operated cafeteria.
Customers would put nickels into slots, turn a knob and open a little glass door to get their food. Horn and Hardart used Swedish-patented equipment they’d imported from Berlin, which already sported a successful “waiterless restaurant.”
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The 13 Most WTF Prescription Drug Side Effects
May 18th, 2010 |
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Every drug has side effects, and we usually just ignore them. Hell, even your toothpaste has warnings and cautions about unintended effects — a laundry list of possible things that could go wrong. Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea. It seems like anything that comes in pill form could give you that. But some drugs…some drugs are scary. [...]
A Good African tale
May 11th, 2010 |
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An African entrepreneur struggles for recognition in rich-country markets
“IT USED to be a badge of pride that we were the only African coffee brand in British supermarkets. Now I see it as shameful,” says Andrew Rugasira, the founder of Good African. He is bemoaning the fact that other African firms—in coffee and many other lines of business—have struggled to follow the trail blazed by Good African since it was founded in 2003.
Mr Rugasira created the firm with the goal of creating a distinctly African coffee brand, by carrying out some of the value-added parts of the supply chain, such as roasting and packaging, in Africa, instead of just shipping raw coffee berries abroad to be processed—rather like Jamaica has done with its Blue Mountain coffee. Since persuading Waitrose, an upmarket British supermarket chain, to stock his coffee in 2005, Mr Rugasira has won round its rivals. Last month Sainsbury’s became the latest to place an order. Good African coffee will soon be available in America, too, though initially only online, not in shops. The firm also has ambitious plans to start marketing Good African tea and Good African chocolate. …
10 Things Schmidt and Jobs Could Have Talked About
March 29th, 2010 |
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Apple CEO Steve Jobs were spotted having coffee together in public March 26. Some high-tech watchers see this as a neutral-ground meeting designed to make the press think the companies’ animosity toward each other has cooled. Will the companies continue to work together, particularly with Apple’s much-ballyhooed iPad set to make its debut April 3? Here is a humorous look at what the two company leaders could have discussed over coffee.
– Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Apple CEO
Steve Jobs were spotted having coffee together in public at a shopping center in Palo
Alto, Calif., March 26.
Some high-tech watchers saw this as a neutral-ground meeting designed to
make the press think the companies’ animosity toward each other has cooled…
Singapore Exchange to start coffee futures in April: Update
March 19th, 2010 |
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Singapore Exchange (SGX) (SGXL.SI) said on Friday it would launch trade in a new robusta coffee futures contract on April 22 to capitalise on Southeast Asia’s top market status for the commodity.
“The launch of SICOM Coffee is timely, as Southeast Asia has grown to become the largest producer and exporter of robusta coffee,” said Jeremy Ang, CEO of the Singapore Commodity Exchange (SICOM), a unit of SGX.
Singapore Exchange to start coffee futures in April
March 19th, 2010 |
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Singapore Exchange (SGX) (SGXL.SI) said on Friday it would launch trade in a new robusta coffee futures contract on April 22.
Cynthia Nixon Banned From Eating On Set Of “Sex And The Cityâ€
March 17th, 2010 |
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In a Sex And The City expose, show creator, Michael Patrick King has revealed that he banned Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda Hobbs in the series, from eating during shooting because her loud grazing drowns out the dialogue of her cast members.
“There’s only one thing I avoided having Cynthia do on all the years of [...]
India’s Coffee Day Holdings in final deal talk with Temasek, KKR
January 14th, 2010 |
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Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings, Standard Chartered Private Equity and buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. (KKR) are in the final round of discussions for a US$125 million ($173 million) investment in Indian Coffee Day Holdings Co., according to people familiar with the development, a report in India’s Mint newspaper said.
Coffee Day Holdings is the holding entity of Cafe Coffee Day, India’s largest cafe chain, Coffee Day Hotels and Resorts, broking firm Way2Wealth Brokers, venture capital firm Global Technology Ventures and Tanglin Development, which is developing technology parks in Bangalore and Mangalore.
SGX to launch gold, fuel oil, coffee contracts in Q1
December 3rd, 2009 |
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Singapore Exchange (SGXL.SI), Asia’s second-largest listed bourse, will launch contracts for gold, fuel oil and coffee in the first quarter of 2010, the firm’s CEO said on Thursday.
Traditional Indian coffee compound could affect colon, breast cancer
November 13th, 2009 |
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A compound in coffee, which has long been in use in India, has been found to be estrogenic, according to Texas AgriLife Research scientists.
Trigonelline or “Trig”-a natural compound used in traditional Indian culture for post-menopausal women may be a factor in estrogen-dependent breast cancer but beneficial against colon cancer development, they said.
“The important thing to [...]