Starbucks Closure List

Here's the full Starbucks closure list -- all 600 stores that are getting the axe, in one convenient, click here.

Turkish Coffee - The Next Hot Coffee Trend

If you are a coffee lover you will like the rich, strong and complex taste of Turkish coffee. Newsday has a story about Mustafa Arat who runs turkishcoffeeworld.com, an online store that equips you with everything you need to make your own Turkish coffee. Arat's timing is perfect as Turkish coffee is starting to become a real hot trend. The Newsday article says that Arat got into Turkish coffee as a way to help reduce the urge to smoke after meals. Here is a video in which Arat describes how to make Turkish coffee:

MARKET TALK: ICE Coffee Firms; Dlr Eases, Options Expire

0941 EDT [Dow Jones] -ICE Dec arabica coffee is up 65 points at $1.3910 a pound, rising off Thursday's 3 1/2-week low but staying in that day's range. March is up 45 points. "We're higher with other commodities as the dollar eases this morning," a New York desk trader says.

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Starbucks, Kraft to sell coffee in Swiss stores

By ANDREA JAMES
P-I REPORTER

Starbucks Corp. and Kraft Foods said Thursday that they would sell packaged coffee in Swiss retail stores for the first time by the end of this month.

The coffee will be sold at Switzerland's Coop, which bills itself as the second-largest retailer in the country and sells groceries as well as other consumer goods and services.

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Coffee may lower cancer risk

From correspondents in Tokyo | September 01, 2008

WOMEN who drink a lot of coffee may have less risk of developing cancer of the uterus, a Japanese study said today.

The study led by Japan's health ministry monitored some 54,000 women aged 40 to 69 over about 15 years, during which time 117 women developed cancer in the womb, according to the medical team.

The researchers at Japan's National Cancer Center divided the women into four groups by the amount of coffee they drank.

They found the group of women who drank more than three cups of coffee every day were more than 60 per cent less likely to develop uterine cancer than those who had coffee fewer than two times a week, the study said.

"Coffee may have effects in lowering insulin levels, possibly curbing the risks of developing womb cancer," the study said.

The medical team also studied the effects of drinking green tea, but did not find any link to uterine cancer.

According to the US Centres for Disease Control, uterine cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women.

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Chocolate and coffee entrepreneur with a legacy of philanthropy

By Haig Simonian

Published: September 12 2008 03:00 | Last updated: September 12 2008 03:00

Klaus Jacobs, the entrepreneur who built his family's coffee roasting business into one of the biggest coffee and chocolate empires in the world, died yesterday at 71.

German-born, Swiss naturalised and a UK resident, Mr Jacobs' biggest move was the sale of Jacobs Suchard, the business he had developed through organic growth and canny deals, to Philip Morris.

The proceeds went to creating Barry Callebaut, the world's leading industrial chocolate maker, and Adecco, the biggest international temporary employment group.

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Chorreador de Café - Costa Rican Coffee Maker

A what you say?

A Costa Rican coffee maker. It's funny how some of these projects are developed but this one came to us in a round about way from one of our readers, Michael O'Reilly. We were exchanging emails about Costa Rica, since we own a little piece of property down there, and he sent me a web site to check out. While surfing around that web site I stumbled onto an interesting site about Costa Rican coffee. We are coffee drinkers, roast our own beans and often buy coffee beans from Costa Rica. Any how we took the picture they showed and made our own coffee maker.

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Brazil coffee pickers flee farms for factory floor

By Peter Murphy

SAO SEBASTIAO DO PARAISO, Sept 10 (Reuters) - When machine harvesters rolled on to his coffee farm for the first time this year to pull ripe cherries from the trees, Jarbos Diogo Pereira broke a decades-old tradition of using only manual labor.

"There used to be a whole line of people working here for my father," he said, pointing to the hills planted with neat columns of trees. "It was a very social thing."

Around half the 35 workers needed to gather the crop by hand returned this year. Pereira, who now runs the farm, ultimately gave up trying to find more hands and hired two harvesters supplied with trained operators.

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ICE Coffee Slides; Sell Stops Triggered

[Dow Jones] - ICE Dec arabica coffee is down 290 points at $1.3790 a pound after touching a 3 1/2-week low as sell stops were sparked. March is off 280 points. "I'm looking for prices to rise this fall but for now the other markets are hurting us," a New York desk trader says. The CRB Index slid to its lowest level since December Thursday.

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How Starbucks Made Coffee History

Lets take a step back in time:

At the beginning when the coffee giant first started out in Seattle in 1971, Starbucks coffee was just three friends with a passion for fresh gourmet coffee, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker, they opened a small shop and began selling fresh-roasted, gourmet coffee beans and brewing and roasting accessories.

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