Tea or coffee used to be just for breakfast or as drink that is used between real meals like lunch or dinner, perhaps combined with cookies or tiny sandwiches. Today, tea and coffee are accompanied by an assortment of breads, meats, cheeses and of course, desserts. There are different types of tea and coffee, with [...]
Summertime is no reason to give up your favorite coffee brew but learn how to enjoy in more ways with a smooth, cold, deliciously flavoured Frappuccino. Whether you like bold and strong or mild and sweet, make your perfect drink with creative coffee syrups. You can make a Frappe Shake with few ingredients that will [...]
Apart from coffee for hot drinks, when we think of coffee recipes, for many, tiramisu or a really sumptuous coffee and walnut cake comes to mind. To call tiramisu an Italian trifle belittles it rather. It is an exquisite Italian sweet made with everything that is good about Italy; namely mascarpone cheese, savoiardi biscuits and [...]
There are some strict rules to brewing the best cup of coffee. These are as follows: • Where possible use filtered water as chlorinated tap water can affect the flavour of the coffee • The temperature of the water is crucial when brewing coffee. Experts agree on 190 degrees Fahrenheit or 85 degrees Celsius. A [...]
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world, and a drink that many people refuse, or are unable, to start their day without. However, most people take their coffee the same way every time, either white or black, with or without sugar. Coffee doesn’t have to be this one-dimensional though, as there [...]
“A cup of coffee, black as a moonless night. Hit the spot.” It’s fair to say that when David Lynch penned those words for Twin Peaks, back in 1990, he was placing an awful lot of his own personality into them. Tea and hot chocolate both have their place, and nothing defines summer better than [...]
Like tea and hot chocolate, there are many ways to serve coffee, but did you know that over 50 countries actually grow the beans? Only a handful produce them in commercially viable quantities. However, there is a growing number of specialist coffees from smaller producers reaching our shores. They include Jamaican Blue Mountain, Java Estate [...]
Christmas 2009 gave us one of the worst winters we’ve ever had in the UK, with seemingly endless snowfall and icy conditions on the roads. The weather meant it was better for many of us to stay indoors, with the fire on and firmly hold on to a nice warm drink, while other people went [...]
What drink can you not start your morning without?(polls) This Poll is sponsored by Whittard of Chelsea
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