Image swiped from Magic Dog Press Most ancient religions seem to have a god for every possible thing: Thor is the Norse God of Thunder, Ares is the Greek God of War, Quetzalcoatl is the Aztec God...

Coffee is the world’s favorite addiction, and in this regard, Finland is number one. The average Finn consumes 26.5 lbs. (12 kg) of coffee per year. In fact, many of the Northern European...

I get the question "How many coffee beans should I use to make a cup of coffee?" often. I have a usual sort of answer that I give that really amounts to "It depends." Then I launch into a...

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...