Costa lotta?

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PRICING Inflation and commodity prices may push up the cost of a cup of coffee. But is there a foam ceiling above which it just becomes too much? Simon Brooke reports How much would you pay for a cup of coffee?... Read more

Bean counters

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CONNOISSEURSHIP Coffee used to be a utilitarian drink. Now, increasingly, it is a connoisseur product, assessed with all the attention to flavour paid to fine wines and whiskies, writes Sarah Jane Evans Christmas is coming. It must be, because the... Read more

Coffee à la carte

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COOKING For chefs, coffee used to mean merely the multiple shots downed to keep them going through long shifts. Now it is increasingly likely to be used in their dishes, savoury as well as sweet, as Bill Knott discovers Anyone... Read more

Rise of the machines

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DESIGN More people are buying coffee machines for the home, creating a market dividing along lines of style and performance, convenience and connoisseurship, writes Josh Sims Heralding the death of the mug of tea might be tantamount to treason in... Read more

Taking the strain

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CLIMATE In the West a cup of coffee is largely taken for granted. But environmental change poses a real threat to the crop and to the farmers who manage it. Simon Brooke looks at scientific and social moves to protect... Read more

Speaka da caffe?

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LANGUAGE The sheer breadth of variation in cups of coffee now available has brought with it a sometimes bewildering new lingo. Nicholas Barber asks whether it reflects customer choice, sales hype or a certain romance? There was a time when... Read more