How Do you Drink Your Espresso?

A new trend has hit American coffee bars featuring a bar design where coffee drinkers order their coffee stand at the bar, unplug chat and go. Many coffee shops in recent years have become like offices and in some cases this has resulted in the ban on laptops like NYC’s Cafe Grumpy Chelsea location. The…

When thinking of coffee beans roasting and cracking at some point during the process I can’t help but think of a jack in the box toy. It’s probably because I imagine I would jump each time the first bean “cracks”.  Maybe it’s a good thing I don’t do the roasting myself! What is this cracking…