coffee

Is a £96 cup of coffee actually worth it? I traveled 5,000 miles to find out

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The Saint Helenian coffee that Napoleon Bonaparte drank is one of the rarest and most expensive in the world today – Getty Napoleon is currently a la mode with the release of Ridley Scott’s swashbuckling new biopic. But when he died in 1821 on the South Atlantic British overseas territory of St. Helena Island, after … Read more

According to science, there is a better way to grind coffee

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Grinding coffee is a messy business. Static electricity builds up on the site, leaving a sticky mess in the mill. Now, a team of chemists and volcanologists from the University of Oregon has unraveled exactly how moisture affects static electricity buildup — and they’ve come up with a simple solution. According to the researchers, adding … Read more