"Cafe Aficionado" Blogs & Blog Posts

Next year, 2013, marks a milestone for Vevey-based food company Nestlé. It’s the 75th anniversary of its introduction of Nescafé instant.True coffee aficionados who still brushoff at the credibility of ‘instant’ may want to take another look.

Researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew and the Environment and Coffee Forest Forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia looked at how climate change might make some land unsuitable for Arabica plants, which are highly vulnerable to temperature change an...

Todd Carmichael travels the entire world to find the best coffee as evidenced on his new Travel Channel series, “Dangerous Grounds.”But still he claims the epicenter of coffee is Manhattan.He said, “The reason is that it’s a city where people...

Green coffee isn't new. There are those who believe that its cultivation originated in Arabia on the Red Sea over 900 years ago, and that at the time, the beans were not roasted but brewed in a manner quite similar to tea. Roasted coffee certainly ha...

Future coffee supplies are in uncertainty. Production has leveled off even as demand has increased, causing coffee-bean prices to quadruple since 2001.Almost 17.6 billion pounds of coffee beans were consumed worldwide last year, up from 2.6 billion i...