coffee Archive

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    A coffee break - by frog



    TreeHugger has these interesting coffee stats: 20 Million — That’s how many families (about 60 to 80 million people) depend on coffee for their income. After oil, coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world. 100 — That’s how many coffee beans it takes to make one cup of coffee on average. 4,000 [...] read more
    September 25, 2008 11:16 am - 7 Comments
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    Packing the plane - by frog



    The front page of the Dominion Post this morning is one of those ‘only in Wellington’ moments.  It seems the New Zealand Olympic team is taking a barista with them to Beijing. I imagine the conversation at the New Zealand Olympic Planning Cmmittee went something like this: Athletes? Check Coaches? Check Physiotherapists? Check Masseuses? Check [...] read more
    July 23, 2008 8:27 am - 7 Comments
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    Quick, get me a coffee! - by frog



    I find coffee culture a strange sort of thing.  It’s funny the way people are allowed to talk about coffee in exactly the same way that an addict to hard drugs is not – references to being ‘unable to function’ until they have had their coffee ‘hit’ or ‘fix’, getting rid of ‘the shakes’. Wellington [...] read more
    June 17, 2008 10:49 am - 9 Comments