Why you should (occasionally) add pepper to your coffee The other morning as I finished the fried eggs my lovely wife had prepared, I bit into a rather larger-than-usual chunk of black pepper. As...

A few of my french presses. Many coffee aficionados swear by the French press. They go on and on about the rich, pure coffee flavors. They talk about the easy brewing. They swear it is the ONLY...

It seems like almost every other day an article comes across my feed claiming that coffee is bad for your health. This is not something I spend too much time worrying about because I can be...

Two tablespoons per cup. We have all heard it. It's sort of the rough "golden ratio" when brewing coffee. Stick to the correct ratio of coffee to water and you will have a good chance of brewing...

These are the Traditional Roast Levels for coffee... But there are more! There are a great many terms that get bandied about when talking about roasted coffee. Many are specific to particular...

From a café in Nice, where it pays to be nice. The world is changing, sometimes so quickly, we are not clear what the proper way to act is. Oftentimes, the lessons we have learned from our...