So many buzz words swirl in front of our eyes and fill our ears daily. With the sale of coffee alone we encounter terms such as organic coffee, fairtrade coffee, even just good old ground coffee. Then these are the blended together with our own personal experiences. How this truly influences us we may never fully understand. Though people spend entire careers studying the impact of adverti ... read more at You Just Can Not Beat A Good Cup of Coffee

On a plane trip from London to Houston I was seated next to a lovely Southern lady born and raised in Texas. During our on and off again conversation I learned that she was not familiar with fair trade coffee. It became apparent after she made reference to an ad campaign that referred to Puro coffee. She mentioned that she had the chance to enjoy a cup of Puro during her visit to a pub in Litton Cheney and had made a mental note that she was quite fond of it. H ... read more at A Good Conversation With A Stranger

There are quite a few terms heard daily that some of us can admit we really do not know what they mean. For example, gourmet coffee is one of those coffee-related phrases that we constantly see written and hear uttered, but might not have a handle on the actual meaning of it. So, I looked it up and found that gourmet coffee comes from exceptional Arabica beans that are grown most often in the optimum conditions of mountainous regions. Those beans ... read more at Gourmet Coffee Defined in Broad Strokes