Category: Beverages

FOOD HOLIDAY: National Coffee Day Trivia

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It’s National Coffee Day. Can you answer these questions, posed by Illy Coffee? Q. In which country was coffee discovered? a. Ethiopia b. Yemen c. Arabia A. Ethiopia. Read the History Of Coffee. Q. True or False: Ounce per ounce, espresso contains more caffeine than brewed coffee. a. True b. False A. False! Brewed coffee…
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NEWS: Bottled Tea Can Be Low On Antioxidants

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A good choice: Snapple shows the milligrams of tea polyphenols on its bottle labels. They are equivalent to a cup of home-brewed tea. Photo courtesy Snapple. Bottled tea is a $1 billion industry in the United States. In the past decade, many people have switched to it from soft drinks because of the antioxidant-generated health…
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PRODUCT: Make Infused Water

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If you enjoy fruit-flavored water, you can make it at home, saving money and the environment (those plastic bottles pile up in landfill forever). Several companies make products that make it easy to create infused water. Bodum’s Ceylon Tea Pitcher is an acrylic pitcher with a filter that was originally designed to brew tea. We…
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RECIPE: Peach Raspberry Lemonade

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Turn ripe peaches into peach lemonade.Photo by Gerhard Taatgen Jr. | SXC.   We’re on a lemonade kick. Yesterday we came back from the farmers market with ripe peaches and made a delicious pitcher of Peach Raspberry Lemonade. Per person, you’ll need: Ingredients 2 tablespoons peach purée 4 raspberries 1 tablespoon fresh-squeezed lemon juice (use…
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