It was a bulky apparatus, designed to reduce coffee brewing times by 90% through steam power. (Back then, it took up to five minutes to brew a single cup!) Moriondo presented his machine at that ...

Other Africans invented animal-fat-and-coffee-berry-protein bars and, get this, fermented coffee-berry pulp—coffee wine. It seems that coffee and booze went hand in hand even back in 800 A.D.

Some people (ahem, Matt Buchanan) claim that the coffee maker is the worst of all possible brewing methods.Maybe so—but it’s still a machine that bazillions of people use daily. https ...

A refined and valuable samovar from 1795. Spanning 400 years of history, with 2,700 images, 2,080 technical descriptions, 220 advertising posters, and 60 technical drawings, the book is staggering ...

The history of the Irish coffee dates back to the 1940s and to another era of travel into Ireland, particularly from the United States, via the flying boats of airlines such as PanAm, which landed ...

Even as caramel macchiatos were proliferating in cities like Seattle and Portland, coffee culture was slow to migrate to Atlanta. The first Starbucks opened in 1994; before that, the only place ...