look who’s talking
compiled by cnl
counter, Its Highly Likely, Los Angeles, California
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Niche coffee makers who were concerned about the environmental impact of coffee waste started selling drinks made from the fruit several years ago. UK
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“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy coffee, and that’s pretty close.” Connecticut
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In “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?”, the last book King authored before his death, he wrote about the work we all must do (then, as now) in learning to live together in peace. “Like life, racial understanding is not something that we find but something we must create,” he said. “…the ability of (Blacks) and Whites to work together, to understand each other, will not be found ready made; it must be created by the fact of contact.” Fact of contact. That means eye contact. Voice contact. Social contact. The type of contact that typically happens when we share a cup of coffee.
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The study attributes caffeinated participants’ positive assessments of themselves and others to heightened alertness—so it’s actual improved performance, not simply a warmer perception of others. But there may be a deeper reason we so often plan to collaborate with colleagues or meet new people over a cup of coffee.
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The National Coffee Association is celebrating “the most robust increase in coffee consumption” among Americans ages 13 to 18.
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Coffeehouses, though, were considered acceptable for Muslims. They were cheap and lacked social restrictions, so they were accessible to everyone. Istanbul
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Skinny Bean Coffee is an instant Brazilian coffee with “seven key fat burning ingredients.”
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Lost in the modern hustle and bustle is the fact that a well-prepared cup of coffee or tea can be so much more. San Francisco
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A study in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism found that guys who chewed caffeinated gum while running sprint drills had delayed muscle fatigue if they were low caffeine users (consuming the equivalent of a cup of coffee a day or less).
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“But people don’t think about coffee the way they think about food. It’s sort of a well-known secret that the coffee here is so good. It’s different and dynamic, and people are getting really good at what they do.” Cleveland