Tea & Coffee 12/01 - Fast Food Opportunities for Specialty Coffee (#)

  „Their “Specialty Coffee” menu includes Caramel Creamer, French Vanilla, Milky Delights, Mocha and Nutty Buddy. Their “Hot Specialty Beverages” include gourmet teas, chai tea latte and hot chocolate. “Cold Specialty Beverages” feature smoothies, Nantucket Nectars and Evian bottled water. Accompanying the coffee and other drinks are “Gourmet Desserts” such as Viva Tiramisu, Chocolate Raspberry Rumble, NY Style Cheesecake, World’s Greatest Carrot Cake, Chocolate Caramel Peanut Pie, Bistro Hot Fudge Cake, and Bistro Rustic Apple Tart.“

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Tea & Coffee 08/01 - Coffee: Then and Now (Cont)

  „Flavored coffees created an awareness of gourmet coffees which continues to grow to this day. Innovative allied products such as cappuccinos, cold and frozen coffee beverages have begun to enhance the continued sales of coffee throughout the North American market place. The same awareness is growing in the Asian and South American market places. Melchers has experienced growth in smaller areas such as Europe, Africa and Australia.” Indeed, while many purists resist giving the category its due, flavored coffees popularized the whole bean sector and may have created, over the past two decades, many more specialty coffee drinkers than otherwise would have appeared.“

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Virtual Coffee: Feature Articles

  „Americans have always been passionate about their coffee drinks. Coffee and gourmet beverages have become a part of our daily routine and are a major reason why people gather and socialize at local coffee shops. And there is no better way to enjoy a hot summer evening with friends than by drinking a blended ice coffee at an outdoor café.“

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International Coffee Organization

  „This was a period when the two other great hot beverages also appeared in Europe. Hot chocolate was the first, brought by the Spanish from the Americas to Spain in 1528; and tea, which was first sold in Europe in 1610.“

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Coffee and Osteoporosis

  „Coffee drinking has been implicated because it has been suggested that caffeine, which is naturally occurring in tea, coffee, and chocolate and added to cola and some energy type beverages, causes calcium excretion which in turn results in weakened bones.“

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