February 18, 2010 – Lavazza is synonymous with great Italian coffee; Emilio Lavazza entered the family business founded by his grandfather in 1955.  In 1971 Mr. Lavazza became CEO of Luigi Lavazza SpA.  Starting out delivering coffee door-to-door to restaurants around Turin where his grandfather ran a grocery store in 1895, he took over [...]

  Until 1554 to 1555 coffeehouses did not exist nor did coffee for that matter.  In the city of Constantinople a man by the name of Hakam from Aleppo and a woman by the name of Sems from Damascus came to the city and started the craze, so it is said, of Turkish Coffee.  The [...]

All over the world climate change has been felt, in some places it is raining more and in others there isn’t a drop to be felt.  This weather condition has effected one very important crop, now brace yourselves, we could be facing a coffee shortage in 2010. Columbia has predicted lower than expected production for [...]

January 26, 2010 – This limited release blend comes from Eastern Africa grown by specially trained farmers, trained by Peet’s coffee buyers.  It will be available in stores from February 15 through March 31 in its initial introduction to the market.   Peet’s Uzuri African Blend will then become a part of their regular offering starting [...]

Sustainability is number one with Jim’s Organic Coffee.  Grown without synthetic fertilizers and pesticides Jim claims to improve the surrounding community’s ecosystems.  Jim Cannell fell into the coffee business by accident in 1985 when he was seeking work on Wall Street in Manhattan.  He met a man who told him to call around for green [...]

Inspiration to invent something usually comes from a need or an annoyance you experience; such is the case with Jay Sorenson.  In the Fall of 1991 he spilled a cup of hot coffee in his lap because he couldn’t hold on to the hot paper cup.  He knew there was a solution to this problem [...]

In 1903 the first commercial batch of decaf was brewed in Europe by steaming the coffee beans in a salt water batch and then adding benzene producing decaffeinated coffee.  Kaffee Handels-Aktien-Gesellshaft (Kaffee HAG) was known as Coffee Trading Company throughout most of Europe.  France sold it Café Sanka and in the US it was known [...]

As I drive past the coffee houses I notice an increasing number of mountain bikers stopping to get their dose of coffee before heading for the trails.  It seems contrary to drink coffee before doing a healthy activity but the science behind it is fascinating on why we crave coffee. The central nervous system is [...]

Founded and headquartered in Durham, NC in 1995  Counter Culture operates training centers along the eastern seaboard to educate people about their practices in dealing with Columbian farmers directly to source the finest tasting coffee. This is a project which partners with local Columbian families in the area called Popayan to source the best of [...]

On the slopes of the island of Hawaii grow the most delicious coffee loved the world over, Kona Coffee.  It is one of the most expensive coffees in the world as it can only be grown on the Big Island in Hualalai and Mauna Loa in the North and South Kona districts.  As champaign can [...]