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      Coffee drinkers have much lower risk of bowel cancer recurrence, study finds

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 06:00


    Exclusive: Scientists say people with disease who drink two to four cups a day are less likely to see it return

    People with bowel cancer who drink two to four cups of coffee a day are much less likely to see their disease come back, research has found.

    People with the illness who consume that amount are also much less likely to die from any cause, the study shows, which suggests coffee helps those diagnosed with the UK’s second biggest cancer killer.

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      The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same – podcast

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 18 March - 05:00


    From the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify. By Kyle Chayka

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      Ravneet Gill’s recipe for coffee madeleines | The sweet spot

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 1 March - 12:00

    Devour these caffeine-laced morsels warm, especially if they’re dipped in chocolate spread or jersey cream

    Freshly baked madeleines are magic. Always a crowdpleaser, they take minutes to bake once the batter is made. I used to think that the only way to enjoy a madeleine was warm, but have since grown to appreciate how soft and buttery they remain once cool. They can easily be embellished, too. I’ve had citrussy madeleines served with lemon icing for dipping, while at Maison François in London they feature on the dessert trolley, piped with a pistachio ganache centre and dipped in a delicate white-chocolate shell. Here, I’ve put coffee grounds in the batter and recommend serving them with bowls of chocolate spread and jersey cream.

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      Late-night chai and covert flirting: why US Muslims flock to Yemeni cafes

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 17 February - 15:00

    Yemeni cafes are intergenerational gathering places where - controversially - some young people go to check each other out

    “It’s straight up fitna , bro.”

    This outrageous statement sounds like a joke. How could a coffee shop be causing strife ? But Yusuf Saleh, the manager of Qamaria Yemeni Coffee Co, is half-serious as he hovers over a hot plate of cardamom-infused mufaw aar coffee in Grand Blanc, Michigan. He’s referring to the gossip surrounding Dearborn’s Qahwah House, a competitor Yemeni cafe chain spreading rapidly across the United States.

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      Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food – podcast

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 12 February - 05:00


    Nicholas Saunders was a counterculture pioneer with an endless stream of quixotic schemes and a yearning to spread knowledge – but his true legacy is a total remaking of the way Britain eats. By Jonathan Nunn

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      What happened when a colleague made me a cup of tea? I almost died of shame | Adrian Chiles

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 7 February - 16:21 · 1 minute

    When I started out in journalism, my bosses expected me to get the kettle out whenever they were thirsty. Thirty years on, the very idea makes me queasy

    The queue for my morning coffee was short but slow-moving. I was next but one up, but the woman in pole position seemed to have ordered an awful lot of takeaway coffees, each one subtly different. They weren’t being made so much as constructed. Cappuccino, latte, oat, skinny, hot, wet, permutations thereof, etc, etc. You know the kind of thing. The queue lengthened behind me. I noted a Just Eat bloke standing there and was vaguely cheered that he was being paid enough to afford a Caffè Nero coffee. But then the woman in front of me was served her drink and it dawned on me that the eight takeaway coffees weren’t for her – they were all for Mr Just Eat. Not for him to enjoy, of course, but to deliver unto others.

    Many questions came to me in my woozy pre-caffeinated state, not least WHO IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY BLOODY WELL GETS COFFEE DELIVERED? Second question: how could there be anything left in the cups by the time he got to whichever weirdos had ordered them? I’d have done a great deal of spilling even if I’d only had to walk them next door. What kind of Cirque de Soleil standard of act must this guy have been to keep them upright on his bike? Perhaps he had some kind of gimbal mechanism in his bag to keep them level, designed by the same people who make snooker tables for superyachts.

    Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster, writer and Guardian columnist

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      No more chocolate, coffee or wine? ‘Last supper’ shows stakes of climate crisis

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 3 February - 14:00

    Former White House chef Sam Kass hosts a four-course dinner featuring dishes that could drastically change – or disappear

    The premise sounded like a rich person’s ethically suspect fever dream: a dinner structured around endangered foods, dubbed “the last supper”.

    But it wasn’t a scene out of The Menu, the movie where detestable foodies seek a once-in-a-lifetime experience steeped in privilege and exploitation. Instead of dining on obscure food on the brink of extinction, the “last supper” featured recognizable dishes – salmon, oysters, coffee, wine – that could drastically change or disappear in the coming years as the climate warms and brings more volatile weather.

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      Don’t tinker with tea, but salt in your coffee is fine | Letters

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 2 February - 16:53

    It may just be boiling water and leaves, but readers have decided views on the best brew – or mash

    Felicity Cloake’s article about tea ( No salt please, we’re British: how to make the perfect cup of tea, 26 January ) reminded me that when I was young my mother wouldn’t let me pour tea for her as she claimed I held the teapot too high above the cup, thereby allowing the tea to get cold on the way down.
    David Gent
    Dartmouth, Devon

    • Two events stand out in my own personal tea education. The first was as a teenager in the 1960s working on an archaeological dig in Warwickshire, where our tea hut was run by two rather lovely elderly ladies. Having asked for two sugars, I was politely but firmly admonished by them both and have enjoyed unsweetened tea ever since. The second was a more recent trip to Darjeeling, which taught me that, with its unique balance of delicacy and flavour, there is no finer tea.
    Mike Battye
    Oxton, Merseyside

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      Consumer group wants to end $255M “gift card loophole” for Starbucks and others

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 5 January - 19:04

    Starbucks app showing on an iPhone

    Enlarge / Starbucks' Rewards programs are a key part of their revenue. How the company deals with unspent amounts in that app could change under new Washington state proposals. (credit: Getty Images)

    When you get a Starbucks gift card, or keep reloading one on your phone, you often end up with awkward amounts that can be difficult to spend.

    For most people, the remainders are a few bucks of wasted potential caffeine and sugar. For Starbucks, they are worth hundreds of millions of dollars each year, according to a consumer advocacy group in Washington state that wants to end the "Gift Card Loophole." Changes in the coffee giant's home state could affect gift and loyalty cards nationwide.

    The Washington Consumer Protection Coalition is pushing state legislators to remove a provision dating back to 2004. While that 2004 legislation was relatively consumer-friendly for its time by barring gift cards from fully expiring and eliminating maintenance fees, it allowed funds left on cards, or now on mobile apps, to be claimed as revenue by companies.

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