Nicole Estaphan explores the history of coffee in Boston (was it coffee, not tea, that fueled the Revolution?) and meets the coffee trailblazer who founded the late, great Coffee Connection. Nicole ...

How coffee became the preferred morning pick-me-up for most of humanity — as well as a most sought-after global commodity — is one of modern history's greatest success stories, littered with ...

[Editor's note: For a summary of coffee history with a bit less imagination—Giorgio is on to something when he imagines the first reactions that led to the cultivation and popularization of a wild ...

Caffeine is the world's most widely consumed psychoactive drug (you can thank globalization and rough Monday mornings for that). But before we had a Starbucks on every other block, the drink endured ...

New school coffee roasters have made headlines in recent months — Stumptown and Intelligentsia were recently snatched up by Peet’s Coffee and new independent micro-roasters are opening up in cities ...

Read Parts One and Two of the Brooklyn coffee history series. John and Charles Arbuckle came to Brooklyn from Pittsburgh and built the largest coffee company in the United States. By the early years ...

Few things affect our lives like coffee and alcohol. Mornings can either be made or broken by a cup (or three) of joe. Newbies often drown it in sugar and milk and are still somehow jittery and weird ...

For too long, much of Black history has been kept out of textbooks. Perhaps that’s why Black business owners are thinking out of the box to tell important, little-known stories—infusing history into ...

Does your favorite coffee mug have a funny pun or cool art? Or maybe an intricate ceramic design? How about stepping things up and having some jewelry with your java? Enter the zarf, a Turkish word ...

ST. LOUIS --Coffee is in the blood for the Charleville family. The family owns Chauvin Coffee on Meramec Street in the Bevo Mill neighborhood. Roasting coffee has been a family affair since the early ...