Coffee, sex, and Starbucks
“When a woman gives a man coffee, it is a way of showing her desire.” According to the Economist, that’s the theme of a new novel exploring the intersection of coffee, love, and sex. For some reason...
View ArticleCoffee without comfort
Dan Drezner examines the ads for the new “McCafe” coffee counters recently introduced by McDonald’s and finds them wanting. His observations are spot on: while the male ad is predictable and somewhat...
View ArticleConservatives and coffee
J. P. Freire reports on a new “Conservative Cafe” in Crowne Point, Indiana: “No, we don’t carry the New York Times,” [owner David Beckham -- not that David Beckham] assures me. They do, however, carry...
View ArticleSan Francisco wi-fi blues
I’m in San Francisco now, enjoying the city’s abundance of excellent coffee. Yet for such a tech-friendly town, I’m having a hard time pairing it with working wi-fi. The new Four Barrel, where I had a...
View ArticlePrecious coffee policies
McDonald’s will ice your espresso for you. Apparently it’s bad enough that they focus their marketing on the iced drinks. (It’s a lame unlinkable Flash site, so click on the “intervention” tab.) In...
View ArticleBring on the Frankenbrew
Ron Bailey’s one of my favorite science writers and I’m completely on board with his complaints about alarmist reactions against genetically modified food. Yet in this post of his about a newly passed...
View ArticleStarbucks skullduggery continues
Remember the controversy over Starbucks’ “scooped on” versus “roasted on” labels? Months later, they still haven’t sorted it out.
View ArticleDoublethinking about Starbucks
I had an article in the Fall issue of Doublethink about the competition between Starbucks and independent coffee shops. This was my first time published in a magazine and seeing everything laid out...
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Coffee bitters and the Antigua Old-Fashioned
With my dual interests in cocktails and coffee it was only a matter of time before the two collided in the same glass. Most recently I’ve been experimenting with coffee bitters. Many roots and barks...
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Vaccari Nero is the new black (or blue)
Blue drinks are back, at least ironically. As Camper English wrote this summer: Blue drinks have long been a mixologists’ in-joke. When bartenders were getting serious about pre-Prohibition cocktails...
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