Excellent coffee is made up of three essential components:- 25 per cent Equipment- 25 per cent Beans- 50 per cent - the person (barista) making it!- Café Art - this is the “theatre” attached to coffee making performed by the barista.- Café society is extending into the office and home and increasingly sophisticated ways of serving coffee are taking place in cafes around the world.- At the office,...

Australians consume approximately 2.4 kilograms of coffee per person per annum -and that’s nearly 1 kg more than the amount of coffee each of us drank in 1979!Percentage breakdown of coffee consumed in cafes nationally:- Cappuccino 50 per cent (men and women almost equal)- Café latte 12 per cent- Flat white 18 per cent- Espresso 9 per cent (men consume ten per cent more than women)Long Black 11 per...

Even the weather was festive - the sun was out, the sky clear and blue,Through it all wafted the irresistible smell of freshly made coffee. Spirits were high.   And why wouldn’t they be?After all this was a coffee fest and most people - after a cup or two of coffee - were on a natural high. Coffee contains caffeine, a mild central nervous stimulant (CNS) which is rapidly absorbed by the...

Mobile blogging is an exciting phenomenon that is sweeping the blogosphere. One of the reasons why a lot of bloggers are attracted to the medium of logging in the first place is that they enjoy being able to make frequent updates and posts that keep all of their visitors up to speed with current situations. Mobile blogs, or "moblogs," take this to the extreme by allowing users to post things literally...

A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming back to your site with the following methods:1) Start a forum, chatroom or shoutboxWhen...

This a few tips to make a Good Cup of Coffee :Use Only Fresh and Pure WaterGood coffee starts with good water. You can use water from your tap but it should be filtered toEnjoying Gourmet Coffee take out the chlorine and other tastes. Run your faucet for a few seconds to clear out some of the water that has been sitting in the pipes before filling your coffee maker.Only Use Whole BeansWhole beans...

Many of us rely of coffee to help us do exactly that. Coffee trees grow to heights of 20 feet and are often pruned to 8 to 10 feet to simplify harvesting. Since the cherries ripen at different times, they are mostly picked by hand. One pound of roasted coffee requires about 2,000 cherries, and since each cherry contains two beans, it takes 4,000 beans to produce that one pound. The average coffee...

There is no single factor that makes a gourmet coffee, but the right combination of coffee bean, roast, blend, grind, and definitely freshness can make for a very succulent cup of coffee.The first factor is the bean.  Gourmet coffees are only made from hand-picked Arabica beans.  These coffee beans grow at high altitudes, in rich soil, under shade.  Arabica beans are grown in many parts...

Corporate blogging is a relatively new idea, and the jury is still out on whether it will succeed. This controversial marketing tool may be the beginning of a new kind of advertising strategy, or it may fizzle out in a matter of months. Many companies are looking for ways to capitalize on the blogging trend, and many of these corporations have determined that a great way to ride the blogging wave...

It is worth cataloguing the basic principles to be enforced to increase website traffic and search engine rankings I've compiled to you hope its usefull:•    Create a site with valuable content, products or services.•    Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document.•    Research...

If you would observe the company that delivers the daily paper to your doorstep for a business case study, you will come to learn that the newspaper publisher hires reporters, writers and other important staff to create the contents and deliver the papers to their readers.In addition to the above mention, the publisher has to invest regularly in heavy duty machineries and tons of papers in printing...

The greatest expense you're going to incur in conducting a successful business is advertising.You have to advertise. Your business cannot grow and flourish unless you advertise. Advertising is the "life-blood" of any profitable business. And regardless of where or how your advertise, it's going to cost  you in some form or another.Every successful business is built upon, and continues to thrive,...