Coffee Bean Direct is a company specializing in whole bean coffee.  When I checked email this morning I found a list of tips on how to be sure that you are getting the freshest coffee ever.

Stale coffee is nasty tasting.  Once it is roasted it begins to go stale. Once it is ground it goes stale even faster.  Most people really have not tasted fresh coffee, especially if they are buying the ground stuff at the grocery store.  Here are the tips from Coffee Beans Direct:

I was reading various headlines and came upon this story about the Ritz Carlton’s Cupcake Tea. It is from the Forbes blog.  For $25.00 you can have tea at the Ritz, amazing in itself, and enjoy tiny cupcakes made from incredible (according to the reporter) flavor combinations.

Anyway, I thought it was a great idea.  I mean, the traditional tea things are beautiful and wonderful, and I hope that those dainty finger sandwiches and tiny tarts will always be part of tea.  But this is a purely American take on it, I think, and mini cupcakes in exotic flavors, coupled with …read more

 
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I love when the seasons change.  We don’t get much of that here until MAYBE late October..for a week or so…but I have fond and vivid memories of my childhood on the east coast.
In fact one year, Marc (who is from Mass.) and I wistfully watched a lone, dead leaf spin to the ground and Marc quipped, “Look.   Fall!”
But…Like Anne of  Green Gables we can imagine anything we like. Imagining autumn with a tea is a wonderful way to celebrate it, and get yourself in the mood, don’t you think?