Posted on October 25, 2008, 11:10 am, by RT Cunningham, under
Coffee.
After watching the employees at one of the Starbucks locations in Phoenix, Arizona, my wife decided to do an experiment to see if she could make coffee that tasted as good as their coffee. More specifically, she wanted to reproduce the taste of their lattes.
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Posted on October 25, 2008, 9:33 am, by RT Cunningham, under
Tea.
I always knew that tea was a healthy drink, but I didn't know it had healthy external uses as well. One of the external uses is in the treatment of sweaty feet, which causes foot odor.
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Posted on October 22, 2008, 3:51 am, by RT Cunningham, under
Coffee.
It may not be the best automatic drip coffee maker available, but the Mr. Coffee coffee maker was the first brand to hit the market in 1972. In business, you either have to be the first or the best if you want to have guaranteed success. Okay, so you can get away with being [...]
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Posted on October 21, 2008, 11:14 pm, by RT Cunningham, under
Tea.
There are so many ways to make iced tea, it's probably impossible to write about all of them. I'm going to try to cover the ways that I've done it, my mother and siblings have done it and the way I've seen other people do it. I'll start with the picture you see on [...]
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Posted on October 14, 2008, 8:40 pm, by RT Cunningham, under
Coffee.
I shouldn't really say "old-fashioned", but I couldn't think of another way to describe coffee makers that most people don't use anymore. The Pyrex coffee percolator pictured is the exact style of coffee pot that my mother and older sisters used when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s.
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