Ideal for use with espresso coffee makers. We ship coffee all over the country through a mail order business, and deliver locally to businesses. Our focus is customer service and quality production. We keep overhead low in order to provide the best coffee at the best price. We select the highest quality beans from the three major growing regions - Indonesia, Africa, and Central/South America. Occasionally we can special order other varieties. |
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Herbal Tea |
Much of the enjoyment of this exotic Italian classic was watching the server make it in the elegant Cappuccino machine, with skill and showmanship. History indicates that coffee was discovered in Ethiopia around 500 a.d. by a goat herder.
Today, Americans consume over 300 million cups of coffee each day.
Coffee is the largest agricultural commodity traded on world markets and second most traded commodity in the world after oil. |
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Fine teas are infinitely more complex than fine coffees, and an expert tea taster (cupper) is even rarer than a coffee cupper. Uptown Coffee is fortunate to have established a relationship with one of the oldest and finest tea importers in the world. |
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Coffeee On The Run |
Uptown Coffee is proud to carry the t-sac, a `tea bag easy` way to brew a cup of quality loose leaf tea, without the mess and cleanup associated with tea balls or strainers. Made from chlorine-free, unbleached paper, it`s as simple as spooning your tea into the bag and adding hot water -- no holder needed.
Most roasters just roast beans. As a small family-owned roasting company, we seek to achieve the best flavors found in true gourmet coffees by raising the bar on standards throughout the entire coffee-making process. |
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Morning Mug |
Their success was attributable to 1995 research by the CCAJ(Chocolate and Cocoa Association of Japan) in which it was suggested that cocoa may help to suppress or even prevent certain diseases. Resulting Japanese media exposure of cocoa as a health food caused sales of chocolate-based drinks to boom.
In Europe, meanwhile, fruit and herbal teas are proving the most dynamic segment of the hot drinks sector in both volume and value terms in Italy, Spain, the UK and the US between 1994 and 1998. |
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Fine teas are infinitely more complex than fine coffees, and an expert tea taster (cupper) is even rarer than a coffee cupper. Uptown Coffee is fortunate to have established a relationship with one of the oldest and finest tea importers in the world.
We then set about achieving our goal of offering the finest of the world's rare and exotic teas. We have tasted hundreds of potential teas from the finest farms in India (DarJeeling, Assam, etc.), China, Ceylon and Indonesia. |
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Coffee was declared the national drink of the then colonized United States by the Continental Congress, in protest of the excessive tax on tea levied by the British crown.
Espresso, a recent innovation in the way to prepare coffee, obtained its origin in 1822, with the innovation of the first crude espresso machine in France. |
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The coffee is then vacuum packaged to maintain peak freshness and flavor characteristics. Coffee was first known in Europe as Arabian Wine. The Arabs are generally believed to be the first to brew coffee. Milk as an additive to coffee became popular in the 1680's, when a French physician recommended that cafe au lait be used for medicinal purposes. The first Parisian cafe opened in 1689 to serve coffee. |
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Herbal teas contain no true tea leaves, and are more accurately called tisanes or herbal infusions. Created from any number of herbs and spices, the botanical ingredients are combined to create exciting flavors and aromas in a rainbow of colors.
Of the Black Teas Darjeeling Rare, fragrant amber-colored tea from India Earl Grey or Earl Gray decaffeinated Premium black teas scented with oil of bergamot
English Breakfast or English Breakfast decaffeinated old favorite is full bodied and stimulating. |
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