Interesting.
How to brew better coffee in your hotel room - Budget Travel via Lifehacker
There are a couple things wrong with this chart. First, you don’t count any cups before 9:30am. Second, another cup at 3pm levels the curve right out until another little boost is needed after dinner about 7pm.
Presidential Teas
As much as I like rooibos, I do think regular black tea would make a better President.
Pork Martini: Four Ways | Serious Eats
Starbucks offers afternoon drink deal nationwide - AP
Coffee and the Bible
A random comment from a colleague led me to the discovery that there is very little in the internets about coffee and the Bible. Turns out there’s a very good reason for that.
Coffee beans, which are actually the seeds of a berry, were chewed as a stimulant; this use was recorded in the Koran and the Bible. —some botany website from UCLA
Uh, no. There are no direct references to coffee in the Bible and, while there may be in the Koran, I couldn’t find any specific references to them.
National Geographic says (via the awesome Food Timeline) even the chewing didn’t start til around 800 A.D. and the brewing didn’t start til around 1000.
That explains it then. (Since the Koran was finalized by 650 A.D it’s not likely coffee is in there either but I’d be happy to be proven wrong.) Even so, this has got to be the most comprehensive treatment of Coffee in the Bible on the web:
(by *bufan)
Nice.
Want.
Ice Balls: Because Ice Cubes Have Too Much Surface Area
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I, also, have never seen ice balls.
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I must lead a deprived life, having never seen
ice balls
before. Ice balls are popular…