Grilling – With Your Favorite Teas!

Summer is for grilling and we love being able to use tea in both savory and sweet grilled foods.  You will need about ½ cup of tea leaves for smoking.  For marinades and rubs, use more or less depending on how much of that flavor you want to impart. Add your favorite ground tea to …

George Clooney Brings Coffee to Sudan … Again

The actor George Clooney, a brand ambassador for Nespresso, announced a new initiative to revitalize the coffee industry in South Sudan. Clooney has been passionately involved in helping the Sudanese region for many years, even convincing Nespresso bosses to fund roads and infrastructure needed to help farmers export goods by 2015. At the press conference, Clooney …

Vive la French Coffee!

The summer air was soft and warmThe feeling right, the Paris nightDid its best to please us And strolling down the Elysée We had a drink in each café And you - You talked of politics, philosophy and I Smiled like Mona LisaWe had our chance It was a fine and true romance…~The opening lines of …

Brand History: Kimbo

Commonly, Naples, Italy is considered the world capital of coffee. Kimbo has its roots in Naples, where a small roasting plant was set up for selling roasted coffee to coffee bars and coffee shops during the 1950’s. A decade or so later, the coffee market was flooded with new packaging systems that allowed the coffee …

Coffee: Not Just for Drinking Anymore!

We have written about various uses for coffee and coffee grounds before – for instance, it is a deodorizer used in clothing, most recently in men’s dress socks. Coffee-bean chaff (a by-product of roasting) was used to power a modified Ford pickup that hit a top speed of 65 mph in testing trials in the …