We almost always think Starbucks as just a café and seller of coffee, but Starbucks really likes making food too. You’ve likely been tempted by the delicious smells of their breakfast options, such as a turkey bacon cheddar and egg sandwich.
Author: Ronan Tetsu
Uses for spent coffee grounds
After coffee is finished brewing, the grounds that gave birth to your cup of joe is often tossed away without any second thought. If your first thought is that the grounds can be reused as compost or fertilizer: you’re correct! Spent coffee grounds are great for rejuvenating destroyed forests (which was previously mentioned in my […]
But what about tea?
Tea is somewhat similar to coffee. Both are readily available, brewed in rapid succession, widespread, served hot, and containing caffeine. Of course however, tea is less popular, but that doesn’t make it any less good (or bad). The most commonly consumed tea is black and green tea; whilst for coffee it is Arabica and Robusta. […]
Dark Side of Coffee Part Two
My last post was on coffee’s biological effects on sleep; this one will talk about the dark side of coffee more on an economic and ecological scale. Coffee was traditionally grown in a method known as “shade-grown”, in which coffee farms were grown under the shade of canopy. This method was more natural, and thus […]