Coffee Pairing - Sweet ... and Savory

(Family Features) - Coffee is the perfect accompaniment to a sweet treat, but the unique nuances of coffee bring out the flavors in savory dishes as well - much like wine. Coffee's aromatic flavor notes - berries, caramel, cocoa, flora, nuts and spice - excite the palate. And when paired with different foods, the flavors of each sip are enhanced by every bite.

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Peruvian coffee eyes international market

By IANS
Wednesday August 15, 09:04 AM

Lima, Aug 15 (IANS) Peruvian coffee is seeking its place in the international market with a seal of quality backed by 10 years of sustained production.

Not a traditional part of the diet in this Andean nation, Peruvian coffee is grown in the tropical forest region, at altitudes of between 800 metres and 2,000 metres on the eastern slopes of the Andes, the Spanish news agency EFE said.

In this area, some 150,000 families grow the grain, accounting for 90 percent of national coffee production.

Their dedication to coffee growing, which provided a way of overcoming the trials of the 20-year civil war that ravaged Peru, has given the commodity a prominent role in the national economy.

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Local (Philadelphia) developer buys anti-Starbucks Saxbys

By Henry J. Holcomb
Inquirer Staff Writer

Joseph Grasso, the Philadelphia real estate and business developer, is jumping into the red-hot gourmet-coffee boom with a milder, homier alternative to Starbucks.

His firm, Walnut Street Capital, completed the purchase last week of Atlanta-based Saxbys Coffee Worldwide L.L.C. for an undisclosed price.

Saxbys headquarters is moving to the Curtis Center, across from Independence Hall. Grasso and partners own the former headquarters of the Curtis magazine empire. He is building a mock-up coffee shop there, where dozens of managers and potential franchise owners will soon be trained each month.

Saxbys' move to Philadelphia gives the city its second gourmet-coffee headquarters. In May, Massimo Taurisano, another veteran of the Philadelphia-area real estate and construction industries, and his wife, Carrie Lapp, bought the Philadelphia Coffee Co.

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UPDATE: Procter & Gamble To Make, Sell Dunkin' Donuts Coffee

Dow Jones
August 13, 2007: 11:16 AM EST

NEW YORK (Dow Jones) - Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Co. said Monday it will produce a Dunkin' Donuts line of coffee for sale at retailers ranging from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to Kroger Co., as the East Coast coffee chain seeks to expand to new U.S. markets.

P&G (PG) , the maker of Folgers and Millstone coffee, will begin selling the packaged Dunkin' Donuts coffee to 40,000 retail outlets nationwide by mid-August and broadly in September. Cincinnati-based P&G said the deal will be structured through a licensing arrangement, where typically companies like P&G pay brand owners a percentage of sales as royalty payments. P&G spokesman Bryan Brown declined to specify the terms.

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