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Just in time for this weekend's road-trippers, snowbirds getting an early start or parents driving kids to college comes this list of great java stops on Interstate 95.

It's from Sandra Phillips-Posner and Stan Posner, a couple that knows most nooks and crannies of the exits off that great north-south artery. They're the authors of Drive I-95, which gives an exit-by-exit look at services, lodging, attractions, radar traps and more.

Here are their coffee stop recommendations:

*Willoughby's Coffee and Teas, New Haven, Conn., at Exit 47. Here's what they say: "The 25-year-old local institution is a serious coffee shop which competes in international competitions. The huge plus here is that they roast their own coffee, so four freshly roasted options (along with their house blend) are offered up daily. This is out of a repertoire of about three dozen. There are two dozen or so teas, and they come in tea bags." 258 Church St.

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Just in time for this weekend's road-trippers, snowbirds getting an early start or parents driving kids to college comes this list of great java stops on Interstate 95.

It's from Sandra Phillips-Posner and Stan Posner, a couple that knows most nooks and crannies of the exits off that great north-south artery. They're the authors of Drive I-95, which gives an exit-by-exit look at services, lodging, attractions, radar traps and more.

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Researchers have claimed that drinking a cup of coffee everyday could be the secret to long life. According to a study, people who drank one to two cups of coffee a day had more elastic arteries than those who drank little or no coffee, reports the Daily Mail.

The subjects of the research were all aged between 65 and 100 and long-term inhabitants of the Greek island of Ikaria. It is known as the ''land of longevity'' and a third of residents reach the age of 90.

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Coffee The Secret To Long Life: Sipping a hot cup of coffee  daily could give you more than a healthful lift of energy. The drink helps people live longer by warding off heart disease, a study has revealed. Researchers at the University of Athens have carried out the study and found that drinking a cup of coffee everyday improves elasticity of the arteries, which can stave off heart disease, the 'Daily Mail' reported.

In fact, the researchers have based their findings on an analysis of 485 people with high blood pressure. The subjects of the study were all aged between 65 and 100 and long term inhabitants of Greek island of Ikaria. It is known as the "land of longevity" and a third of residents reach the age of 90.

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A coffee maker is an electric appliance that produces brewed coffee automatically, consisting of a hotplate, coffee pot, filter basket, and water reservoir. When it comes to coffee makers there are many, many to choose from. But if you are a coffee lover, you are probably very discriminating in your preferences so it's worth your time to do your analysis.

But first, determine what you want in a coffee maker. Are you satisfied with going to the nearest box store and picking one up for about twenty dollars? That's fine, they make a decent cup of coffee. Or maybe you're looking for something with a bit added style. Something that will fit into your kitchen decor nicely. Or something of best quality that will outlast the 20 buck special.

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Coffee production in Vietnam, the world’s second-biggest producer, will rise 7 percent next year because of favorable weather, a U.S. Department of Agriculture unit said. Output will increase to 18.7 million bags in the 12 months starting Oct. 1 from an estimated 17.5 million this year, the USDA’S Foreign Agricultural Service said in report posted today on the agency’s website. Vietnam produced 18 million bags in the year that ended Sept. 30. A bag weighs 60 kilograms (132 pounds).

Production will increase “due to reasonable rainfall during the coffee-blossoming period and the current drought of the dry season not yet reaching a critical point for coffee trees in the major coffee-growing areas,” the service said. Projected output is down this year because of early torrential rains, the attache said.

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There is nothing quite like waking up in the morning, stumbling to the kitchen and finding your favourite coffee brewed and waiting for you. Of all the drinks in the world, coffee seems to have universal appeal. But if you have ever travelled you quickly discovered that one person's coffee can be quite different from another's. A World Wide Business--Coffee Types

Coffee is grown on five different continents and dozens of countries around the world. There are coffee plantations in Columbia and much of South America. There are hundreds of plantations in Africa. The growing region expands to the east and west including the West Indies, Sumatra, and Java.

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The Coffee Research Foundation (CRF) is preparing to release a new coffee variety that could end the shortage of seedlings in Kenya. According to the CRF deputy director of research Mr Chrispine Omondi, the new variety has a combination of the characteristics of Ruiru II and SL varieties, since it is tall and disease resistant. Officials from the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (Kephis) and CRF will this week visit selected farmers who have been growing the variety on a trial basis in Machakos, Meru and Western Kenya, to see how it has been doing.

Tests Tests for distinctiveness, uniformity and stability, which are crucial for the registration of the new variety by Kephis are more than 80 per cent complete. Its release is only awaiting the adaptation trails, which are at an advanced stage, Mr Omondi said. He added that it has been difficult to propagate the Ruiru II variety, since it is a hybrid.

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How actually is the tradition behind beans and Arabic coffee . Arabic coffee beans are one of the most exculusive flavour of coffee.

It is the way in which a coffee is prepared in many arab countries throught the middle east. There are many ways in which coffee is prepared world wide.

However in Arab countries it is mainly prepared in two ways. The first one is Bedouin It contains Cardamom and other spices are added to it when you buy it fresh.It is mainly served in special coffee pot and coffee cups with no handles.

It is mainly served in good restaurents and it is usually offered with the compliments of the house and is freeby specially clad waiters called gahwaji and at home. And one more strange thing to add it is also offered in weddings and at funerals too. InSaudi arabia it is yellowish in Jordan it is dark.

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Some frappuccinos and other iced coffees may contain as many calories as a double cheeseburger and fries, a British-based cancer charity warned Monday.

The World Cancer Research Fund said the combination of sugar, full fat milk and cream in some beverages push the drinks into the upper levels on the calorie scale.

A survey of popular chains in Britain found the highest calories in a venti (700-millilitre) dark berry mocha frappuccino from Starbucks with 561 calories. Other iced coffees contained more than 450 calories, and most exceeded 200 calories.

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