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It looks like we US Airways is going the route of the now defunct no frills Peoples Express airlines. How much could it cost to provide coffee to its passengers? Frankly, I hate the coffee on Delta (I can’t recall the last time I had coffee on a US Airways flight). Delta’s coffee always tasted of soap residue. This is a consistent taste that I have experienced on several flights so the soap so it is not just a one time situation of someone not properly rinsing out the coffee pot.
Your best bet anyway is to get a better coffee before you board your flight and not wait to get served crummy coffee on the plan.
The US Airways Group is the first major American airline to charge for coffee and sodas, though many passengers may still get free beverages
The Association of Flight Attendants-Cwa is objecting to collecting the US$1 and US$2 fees for nonalcoholic drinks, which US Airways is imposing to counter record fuel costs. Should travellers balk, they probably will not have to pay, the union said.
The union’s complaints mean the airline will set a new industry standard while relying on employees upset at having to enforce it. The soft-drink policy is among a package of new fees that US Airways says will produce US$500 million in new annual revenue.
US Airways has told its 6,700 attendants to “err on the side of the customer” in deciding whether they need to end a confrontation by providing a free beverage, an airline spokesman, Morgan Durrant, said.
“This is one tactic we’ve just had to put in place to cope with fuel prices,” Mr. Durrant said. The carrier posted a second-quarter net loss of US$567 million.
Last year’s July issue of Wired Magazine “What’s Inside” expose on Red Bull. I am sure many of us like me have no idea so this will be surprising for some.
Glucose - Sugar water
Taurine - Also known as 2-aminoethane-sulfonic acid, this was originally isolated from bull bile in 1827. Don’t worry as this in now made sythetically.
Glucuronolactone - Not many studies are available that ascertain what this can do for you.
Caffeine - Ahh, the driver of coffee. Increases concentration and reaction speed improve emotional stat and boost metabolism.
Niacin - Also used to lower cholesterol. This increased the HDL, good cholesterol, is in such low amount that you will not be able to use this as an excuse to drink to improve your pipe work.
Sodium Citrate - Used as a preservative in soft drinks and soft cheese. This helps convert glucose into lactic acid during exercise that has been proven to improve athletic performance.
Inositol - Found in animal muscle, this carbohydrate has been found to reduce depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic attacks and agoraphobia. This sounds great but you will need to drink 360 cans per day to make this chemical meaning for you.
The popular convention is that espresso has a stronger punch and more caffeine than a regular cup of coffee. Is it because of the stronger taste that people convey into a stronger cup of coffee? Well you may be surprised to read that coffee has much more caffeine content than a cup of espresso.
A 12 oz cup of coffee has 240 milligrams of caffeine. Compare that to a single shot of espresso (1 oz.) which contains 75 milligrams of caffeine. Now if you were to drink 12 oz. of espresso you would be riding a rocket ship of energy since it would pack a whopping 900 mg of caffeine.
In Miami Cuban coffee is the popular far which most people also believe is stronger than regular coffee. Cuban coffee is just plain espresso loaded with several teaspoons of sugar in just one ounce. People mistake the strong take plus the sugar rush with a high caffeine content
We have experience a problem with our coffee farmer in Costa Rica which has stopped shipping coffee. This was a sudden decision and unfortunately we were not ready to suddenly transition to an different coffee farm but our search has been completed. We should have this back up on our website within one week.
We have decided on a coffee that comes from the same valley in Tarrazu in the town of San Marco. We visited them a few weeks ago and the coffee is of equal high quality. This coffee also is Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance Certified.
We could have easily have purchased Costa Rican Tarrazu coffee from a wholesaler here in the states as most other coffee companies but that would go against our business mission. The problem with buying from wholesale coffee traders is that what you are buying is always in question. The Tarrazu coffee that the Costa Rican coffee board certifies is a rather broad geographic designation.
By going directly to the coffee farmer we are assured of the consistent high quality.
My apology for the delay in getting restocked but I believe that you will be please with our selection.
The other Saturday morning I decided to splurge and have some Blue Mountain Coffee using a coffee press. I took my time to prepare it. I had not noticed before but for some reason it had hints of a rich chocolate drink. It had all of the flavors of Blue Mountain but had a lingering chocolaty taste that brought a smile to my face. Boy I love coffee!
I found this on Merriam-Webster’s dictionary. There is a term for those of us who are into the latest food fads. I would consider gourmet coffee as one so that makes us foodies!
foodie \FOO-dee\ noun
: a person having an avid interest in the latest food fads
Example sentence:
A serious foodie, Beryl reads cookbooks like novels and scours specialty shops in search of exotic ingredients.Did you know?
“Foodie” is a relatively recent addition to our language (dating from the early 1980s), but it derives from a much older word, “food,” which has been with us for as long as there has been anything that could be called English. “Food” can be traced back through Middle English to the Old English form “fōda,” which is itself related to Old High German “fuotar,” meaning “food” or “fodder,” and Latin “panis,” meaning “bread.” “Panis” is the source for “empanada,” a Spanish turnover with a sweet filling, “panatela,” a type of cigar, “panettone,” an Italian bread containing raisins and candied fruit, and “pantry,” a room used for the storage of provisions.
Colombia’s coffee ambassador to the world, Carlos Sanchez, is finally quitting after four decades of playing the role of Juan Valdez. And the national federation of Colombian coffee producers is searching for a man to inherit his poncho — as well as his trusty mule, Conchita.
Sanchez has promoted Colombian coffee since 1969 with a leather bag, bushy mustache and straw hat typical of rural Colombia. He inherited the role from Jose Duval, a Cuban, who became the first Juan Valdez in 1959. Sanchez, 71, said his advancing years made it hard to keep up a strenuous schedule traveling the globe promoting coffee.
The new Juan Valdez has a lot of selling to do: Colombia’s coffee industry has taken a beating during the global glut of the past decade. In 2005, coffee exports were about $1.4 billion, or $100 million less than those of a decade earlier.
In searching for a replacement, the federation sent teams across the streets, farms and — of course — cafes in the country’s western coffee region. With the help of U.S. consultants, it narrowed the field from 400 contenders to 10. The new Juan Valdez, the third incarnation, will be announced by June 30. Read the full article.
Latte’s popularity is now greater than cappuccino in the UK.
London – The latte has overtaken the cappuccino as Britain’s favourite coffee - with 227,000 cups downed every hour.
Britons now consume 935 million lattes every year, enough to fill 561 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
The firm Costa Coffee has seen its latte sales rise 10 per cent this year and say hit TV shows have increased the popularity of the latte.
Mike Lawless, head of UK Marketing for Costa, said: “Customer research showed lattes have become the most popular drink for the first time in our 35-year history.”
Here in South Florida we have had the original Latte now for several decades, its called Cafe con Leche. This is the identical drink but with more sugar and made with Cuban coffee.
I have to report this cool looking volcano eruption in Indonesia. The cone looks very much like the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica which was the inspiration for our trademark and picture on our packaging.
Washington – A team of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists from the Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) in Washington state has spent three weeks in Indonesia, working with the government there to evaluate the threat of volcanic eruptions.
Their work included studying Mount Merapi in central Java, a 9,800-foot peak considered the most dangerous of Indonesia’s 129 active volcanoes because of the large nearby population, a frequency of severe eruptions, and increased activity in past weeks.
Mount Merapi´s threat is magnified because it is near Yogyakarta, home to more than 1 million people, and located less than 20 miles from the volcano’s summit, according to a May 17 USGS press release.
More than 100,000 people also live within hazardous zones on the flanks of the volcano. During the past 12 years, Mount Merapi erupted six times.
Mount Merapi began showing signs of new unrest in summer 2005, with an increase in seismic activity that prompted the Merapi Volcano Observatory to conduct volcano hazard education programs in villages on the volcano’s flanks. Read full article.
