A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe

Deep Love
---------

You cannot reach deeper within another than you reach in your own self.

If you love yourself for your achievements, your current assets, the way you do things and handle the world -- and despise yourself for failure in the same -- it follows that your relationship with another will also be transient and superficial.

To achieve deep and lasting love of another person, you need to first experience the depth within yourself -- an inner core that doesn't change with time or events. If it is the true essence, it is an essence shared by the other person as well, and deep love becomes unavoidable.

A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe
-words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman

Caffeine's effects on health continue to be focus of study

BY JAMIE TALAN
Newsday

The smell of coffee does it for me -- every morning, every day of my adult life. It's a strong lure, but one tempered by another force: After one cup, my brain responds that I've had enough, for the sheer pleasure in that first serving will turn into the jitters with a second.

The act of balancing caffeine's pleasure vs. its harm is one every coffee or tea drinker knows well. But scientists have taken the discussion in new directions -- to an examination of the impact of caffeine on health, far beyond the immediate jitters.

They have spent decades putting caffeine -- the ingredient in coffee, tea and cola that delivers the buzz -- under the microscope. And so far their efforts have yielded mixed results. Though recent studies have reported on potential health benefits from consuming coffee -- in fact, lots of it -- there are others that find it can be unhealthy.

What's a coffee drinker to do?

More...

Ice adds spice to tea and coffee market

16/12/02 - Tea and coffee are undergoing something of a revival in fortunes at the moment, largely because of the success of the iced variants which have been launched onto the market in recent years.

Drinks industry analysts Canadean claim in a recent study that the success of iced tea and iced coffee is due in no small part to the fact that they have a broad appeal to a wide range of consumers in a small number of markets.

More...

World coffee markets stirred up

BY DALE K. DUPONT
Knight Ridder News Service

MIAMI — Talk about a jolt from java.

World supplies of coffee exceed demand. Quality is deteriorating. Prices paid to growers are in a slump, while prices of some supermarket brands are going up. Colombia is opening a string of coffee shops to shore up its market. And Starbucks is pushing into Latin America.

"Coffee is in turmoil," said Roberto Olmedo, general manager of Colmar Storage, one of a handful of South Florida warehouses officially designated by the New York Board of Trade as delivery points for green coffee destined for futures trading. Only two other ports — New Orleans and New York — share the coveted designation.

But trouble is brewing in that pot, too. The Port of Houston wants similar status, which likely would cut into everyone's business. Coffee is important to South Florida, a hub for importers, roasters and traders and 22 percent of the country's warehoused stocks.

More...

Coffee Venture Pays Off

New Vision (Kampala)

Emmy Olaki
Kampala

The establishment of the Beijing Chenao Coffee Company Limited (BCCCL) could not have come at a better time for Uganda's coffee industry.

The agreement that was signed was indeed a milestone for Uganda's coffee sector and the entire country. It meant that for the first time in the industry's history, Ugandan coffee would be marketed as its own brand, Crane coffee, and not as a blend of other coffees.

But most importantly, it also paved way for Uganda to realise its first export to China, which is one of the country's leading trading partners in imported machinery, equipment and textiles.

More...

Nestle Strives to Transform China Into a Coffee Drinking Nation

Deep-rooted tea-drinking tradition among Chinese hard to overcome

Global food giant Nestle is resolved to tap China`s coffee market despite the deep-rooted tea-drinking tradition among Chinese.

Josef M. Mueller, president of Nestle China, said that the company had successfully introduced coffee into other countries renowned for their tea culture, like the United Kingdom and Japan.

As for China, Mueller expressed his belief that his firm will also succeed in turning the Chinese into coffee drinkers.

More...

Coffee Bars in China

On my recent trip to China I visited several places offering coffee on their
outside signs. I found the coffee to be fresh, well prepared, and excellent
service. They all treated coffee as a specialty drink, with prices to compare
to US prices.

O'Farrell Cafe and Mingtien Coffeelanguage were across the street from my hotel
in Xi'an, China. Both served excellent coffee and I have a shot of one of the
coffee menus. The prices are for Small and Large and are in Chinese Currency
(Yuan). To convert to US dollars, multiply by .12---you will see that the are
close to US prices.

Both places brewed per single serving in a vac pot. The barrista ground the
beans and made the coffee in front of the patron on the bar. The espresso was
also good and notice the Americano offered on the menu. She ground the coffee,
pulled a double shot and added a little hot water, just as you would expect.
It was delicious.

I found identical setups at other coffee shops in China. They were all restaurants
and liquor bars, with the coffee bar placed prominently at the liquor bar. The
vac pot pictured uses a gas jet to heat the water and brews one serving at a
time. Most shops also had a larger vac pot for groups.

Robert

If caffeine is not the villain, what is?

New York - Decaffeinated coffee creates the same buzz as regular coffee, scientists believe. Researchers found increased heart rate, blood pressure and nervous system activity when occasional coffee drinkers drank a triple espresso, no matter whether it was normal or caffeine free.

Those who drank coffee regularly appeared to be protected against at least some of these effects, probably because they had grown to tolerate it. The report, published by Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, concludes that an unknown ingredient rather than caffeine is responsible for coffee's stimulant effects.

More...

Starbucks plans big push into China

BY ANGUS CHUANG
Reuters

TAIPEI - Starbucks Corp., the world's top coffee shop chain, said on Friday it is planning a big push into China, confident the tea-drinking nation will develop a taste for lattes and cappuccinos.

The company has a bold ambition to expand its stores in Asia to 6,000 from around 600, with a large number of those opening in the greater China region.

More...

Coffee growers merit fair price

World coffee prices have plummeted 70 percent over the past five years due to a glut that began with deregulation about a decade ago. That's fairly shocking news to most Americans, who have been paying roughly the same for a cup of joe at their local cafe, and only a little less for a can of the stuff at their supermarket.
Greed -- on the part of major coffee companies like Kraft, Procter & Gamble, Nestle and Sara Lee -- is a big reason. They're making out like bandits at the expense of hundreds of thousands of small family farmers in places such as Nicaragua, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico. The price paid to these farmers is now between 15 cents and 25 cents a pound, substantially less than the world market price of about 50 cents.

More...