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Chinese Coffee Culture Is Ready to Graduate from Adorable to Artisan
China's a nation of tea-drinkers, but it's finally starting to hone in on what makes a damn fine cup of coffee, from carefully roasted beans to unique presentations.
Modern Baseball’s Guide to British Food
The pop punk band deconstruct prawn cocktail and write a eulogy for Nando's.
Scientists Have Developed Beans That Can Survive the Global Warming Apocalypse
With the planet headed toward a certainly much warmer future, beans—and the people who rely on them for protein—are in peril. But bean breeders have announced the development of 30 new varieties that could survive a "worst-case" climate change scenario.
Trappist Monks Are Trying to Save Venezuela's Dying Coffee Industry
The monks who live and roast beans at the Roman Catholic Trappist monastery in the mountains above Mérida face shortages like anyone else in the country, but manage to navigate the lawless world of the dwindling coffee industry there.
MUNCHIES Guide to the Basque Country - Part 4
Irene visits Ordizia Market, where granddads have been congregating for gossip, snacks, and hat-wearing for centuries, then feasts at award-winning vineyard Remelluri.
Canned Food Will Save Our Children from Certain Death
An Alabama school principal is recommending that in the event of a dangerous school shooter or classroom intruder, children arm themselves with cans of beans or soup. Err ... maybe?
Meet Guar, the Tiny Green Bean That Makes Fracking Possible
You should get to know guar, Big Oil's favorite legume.
Buffets Bring Out the Best and Worst in Us All
Buffets aren't so much a cuisine as a medium, a methodology for letting customers dictate the pace and capacity of their own platefuls. And they force us to be tolerant with one another.
Milk Foam Dicks and Cupping: What I Learned at Coffee School
Coffee is the engine oil of greatness and makes us feel like Vikings. Good coffee is worth the effort and a bit of pretentiousness, so I took myself to coffee school to be taught the makings of the perfect cup. Oh, and how to make a milky dick.
I Cupped Guy Fieri's Beans
In a quest to learn the true meaning behind 'Flavortown', I gathered a group of professional Oregon coffee cuppers to assess Guy Fieri's new coffee line, Flavortown Roasts, to slurp and sip on the food personality's brews.
The Darkest Coffee Is Made by a Black Metal Musician
Tombs' frontman Mike Hill is keenly interested in the occult practice of alchemy. In music, that translates to a combination of hardcore, black metal, and doom metal. With his new coffee brand, that means high-altitude beans and bulletproof brews.
Fuck, That's Delicious: London
Action Bronson hit the streets of London to expose himself to piping hot Chinese barbecue pork buns in Chinatown, grilled “Michael Jordan” lamb chops at Lahore Kebab House, and sampling Liverpool’s beloved meat stew, scouse.