Is it the coffee or the ambience?

Image credits: reallynatural.com

Don't know about you but I'd like to believe that coffee should not be expensive. Now if I'm not mistaken then perhaps that partly explains why "Starbucks will close 300 more stores, and lay off 6,700 workers". Or is it solely because of worldwide recession? So who is your coffee?

Science of Coffee

Science and the City shares a podcast featuring the Chairman of illycaffe S.p.A. discussing the chemistry and technology behind great tasting coffee. [via Cory Doctorow]

Click on the image below to listen to the mp3 file.



Now for the art of drinking coffee, here's how they do it in Italy.

Giving back to the community

Amadeo (a small town South of Manila), is known for the Cafe Amadeo, a unique blend of four types of coffee and possesses the aroma of jackfruit.

Now you may wish to consider this as a plug for hometown. As my other blog declares:

"Si solamente por los niños."