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Mind-Blowing Portrait Created from Thousands of Coffee Stains
Just weeks after she took the Internet by storm with her incredible portrait of Yao Ming, created only with a basketball and red paint, Malaysian artist Hong Yi strikes again, this time with a realistic rendition of Taiwanese singer Jay Chou made with coffee stains. The young artist begins her unusual creative process by taking a sip of coffee. Like most of us, she spills some of it in the small...
Robusta Coffee Premium Vanishes as Vietnamese Sales May Rise
Robusta coffee for March delivery erased its premium to the May contract on speculation farmers in Vietnam, the world’s biggest grower of the variety, will accelerate sales to take advantage of higher...More...
Take tea to protect your health!
While many of us may remain undecided about how much is too much for us to take tea in a day, researchers have claimed drinking three cups of tea a day could help us keep the heart attacks and type 2 diabetes at bay. A...More...
Assam tea output crosses 500 m kg
Guwahati: After three years, production of Assam tea has once again crossed the 500-million kg mark. The State has recorded a total production of 508.74 million kg for the year 2011. The figures for last three years...More...
Don't Worry, Drink Coffee: American Heart Month
Good news, coffee drinkers. In addition to the recent Harvard Nurses Study that followed more than 50,000 participants for 10 years and demonstrated that coffee cuts depression in women, Heart 411: The Only Guide to...More...
India Coffee Culture Brewing as Tea Holds Ground
India is traditionally a tea-drinking country. But it is now acquiring a taste for coffee, prompting global coffee chains to eye the huge market. And local entrepreneurs are also hoping to cash in on the...More...
Tassimo coffee-maker piece recalled after customers burned
The manufacturer of Bosch-brand Tassimo brewers announced a massive recall Thursday after receiving dozens of reports of second-degree burns, including one involving a Canadian toddler. About 900,000 single-cup coffee...More...
The Problem With Coffee Pests
The coffee berry borer is one of the predominant coffee pests in the region. It can devastate crops by ruining coffee berries and the quality of the coffee. To make matters worse, it is very difficult to control. The...More...
Tea output misses 1 billion kg mark in 2011; rises 2 %
Missing the 1 billion kg production mark by a whisker, the country's tea output stood at 988.32 million kg in 2011, a marginal rise of 2 per cent over that in the previous year. Tea exports fell by 3 per cent to...More...
India says tea exports to Iran facing payment hurdle
Indian tea exports to Iran are facing payment hurdles, the trade secretary said on Thursday, the latest sign that Western sanctions are biting the Islamic Republic which is struggling to pay to keep its trade...More...
Europe’s Largest Tea & Coffee Industry Event Returns to Vienna
The 16th Tea & Coffee World Cup Exhibition & Symposiums, Europe’s largest and most comprehensive event for the coffee and tea businesses, will be held March 25-27, 2012, at Reed Messe Wien in Vienna, Austria....More...
David Lynch Releases Ad for Coffee
Director says the beverage has a strong connection to artistry. David Lynch might not agree with the average Joe on what makes a movie great. The director gravitates toward the macabre and the mind-bending,...More...
Single-cup coffee sales seen growing
Sara Lee Corp Executive Chairman Jan Bennink thinks it is time for his company to reinvest in the single-serve coffee market. Back in 2001, when it teamed up with Philips to launch the Senseo machines that brew single...More...










































