If you love coffee, you might want to consider getting the book, "The Joy of Coffee: The Essential Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Enjoying," by Corby Kummer. It contains everything about coffee you'd ever want to know - and includes a whole separate section with dozens of recipes that include coffee as an ingredient. There are bunches of interesting tidbits, as well as very useful information.
A friend of mine, who is 65 years old, has smoked since he was a teenager and swears he was just pronounced "healthy" by his doctor. He also consumes an amazing amount of coffee during the day - and these two facts might just be linked. According to an article on WebMD, coffee may offset damage done to your body by other bad habits, like drinking and smoking. People that drink a significant amount of coffee reportedly have less heart disease and liver damage than those that don't drink it. The article also says that coffee may help asthma sufferers, stop headaches, boost people's moods - and prevent cavities (?) You can read more at: http://men.webmd.com/features/coffee-new-health-food. There's another article on Harvard Health Publications at the following link; http://www.health.harvard.edu/press_releases/coffee_health_risk.htm.
We've all been calculating our carbon footprints at work and trying to come up with ways to offset them. I ran across the ifyoucare.com website that features environmentally friendly coffee filters among its products, where the company manufactures them using 100% unbleached paper, and other products using 100% recycled resources. Granted, using one or two paper coffee filters per day won't make much of a dent in my 11-ton carbon footprint, but it's a start!
The winner of the national competition received a trophy, a thousand dollars, AND an all-expense-paid trip to the WORLD championship to be held in Copenghagen, Denmark, from June 19 to 22, 2008. Who would have thought that making coffee could be so lucrative?
Now I only have Starbucks when I want to "treat" myself!
