Coffee Anyone?

[longknife]

There is gourmet coffee, and then there is Black Ivory Coffee. Produced in northern Thailand, the beans, as can perhaps be interpreted from the picture, are "naturally processed" by elephants, a process that takes between 15 and 30 hours, depending, no doubt, on the elephant's own coffee intake. The beans that result -- after cleaning and roasting, that is -- cost roughly $1,100 per kilogram, or $50 for a cup.

 

[Harrisons]

Coffee which is very good for any age especially for the old age people.It gives a lot benefits even body also becomes much heated and energetic even all other pain for the body very soon eliminated.It has no side effect for the body.It is a good therapy for the inner organs of the body.

 

[Capstone]

I'll stick with the mountain grown crystals.

Thanks anyway.

 

[Mr. H.]

I wonder if the elephants get a buzz eating those beans.

 

[Capstone]

I don't know, but elephant poop coffee seems like one of those things to which the phrase, "Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.", might not apply, ...like crack.

*takes a sip of the usual blend*

 

[Capstone]

Goddamnit, why doesn't anyone want to talk about such a VITAL issue?!

 

[Skull Pilot]

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[earlycuyler]

There is gourmet coffee, and then there is Black Ivory Coffee. Produced in northern Thailand, the beans, as can perhaps be interpreted from the picture, are "naturally processed" by elephants, a process that takes between 15 and 30 hours, depending, no doubt, on the elephant's own coffee intake. The beans that result -- after cleaning and roasting, that is -- cost roughly $1,100 per kilogram, or $50 for a cup.

Damn. Ill eat and crap a pound of coffee beans for a grand.

 

[Capstone]

The USMB Coffee Shop is overcrowded. This one is more to my taste.

 

[editec]

I'd try it.

 

[Connery]

Tastes like crap.

 

[longknife]

Coffee thoughts

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[longknife]

[couldn't let the thread die!]

This Is Your Brain on Coffee
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

Illustration by Ben Wiseman

This column appears in the June 9 issue of The New York Times Magazine.

For thousands of years, coffee has been one of the two or three most popular beverages on earth. But it’s only recently that scientists are figuring out that the drink has notable health benefits. In one large-scale epidemiological study from last year, researchers primarily at the National Cancer Institute parsed health information from more than 400,000 volunteers, ages 50 to 71, who were free of major diseases at the study’s start in 1995. By 2008, more than 50,000 of the participants had died. But men who reported drinking two or three cups of coffee a day were 10 percent less likely to have died than those who didn’t drink coffee, while women drinking the same amount had 13 percent less risk of dying during the study. It’s not clear exactly what coffee had to do with their longevity, but the correlation is striking.

Read more @ This Is Your Brain on Coffee - NYTimes.com

 

[asaratis]

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This Is Your Brain on Coffee
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

Illustration by Ben Wiseman

This column appears in the June 9 issue of The New York Times Magazine.

For thousands of years, coffee has been one of the two or three most popular beverages on earth. But it’s only recently that scientists are figuring out that the drink has notable health benefits. In one large-scale epidemiological study from last year, researchers primarily at the National Cancer Institute parsed health information from more than 400,000 volunteers, ages 50 to 71, who were free of major diseases at the study’s start in 1995. By 2008, more than 50,000 of the participants had died. But men who reported drinking two or three cups of coffee a day were 10 percent less likely to have died than those who didn’t drink coffee, while women drinking the same amount had 13 percent less risk of dying during the study. It’s not clear exactly what coffee had to do with their longevity, but the correlation is striking.

Read more @ This Is Your Brain on Coffee - NYTimes.com

So why does my cardiologist suggest not drinking coffee (or other drinks with caffeine)? Is he trying to hasten my departure?