Café de l’Ambre, Tokyo

(The following is based on an Article by Ken Belson, published in the New York Times on July 12th 2009. Thank you to the author for his kind permission to include this information in this blog.)

 I must introduce this Café to all those with access to my Blogs and my Forum “the Coffee Universe” by XING, although i was never there, never in Japan, never in Asia… However, EVERYTHING tells me, this is a special place for coffee, for coffee lovers and coffee believers. So i must let all know about this spot in Tokyo.

It is called Café de l’Ambre.

Mr. Sekiguchi is 95 years of age and still roasts today in his Café. He opened this Café l’Ambre in 1948 and his first coffee beans

as George Washington was looking…

As George Washington was looking into what was left of his coffee, he found no coffee grounds, but found himself.

Or was that Wolfgang von Goethe?

Extroverted and Introverted Espresso

It is quite a few months ago – while enjoying a small space and a wonderful coffee – that I was reminded that extravagance and simplicity, as a form of expression, are not at all related, but in their contents they are not necessarily different and even at times it might be impossible to differentiate between the two. Hence I wish to speak in this context from an extroverted and an introverted  espresso way.

Around the middle of the 19th century the French had shown the idea of an espresso machine. They displayed a prototype at the 4th World Fair in Paris, back in 1855. It was not until 50 years later, however, that Desiderio Pavoni and Luigi Bezzara introduced

undrinkable coffee rest with pumpkin seed oil

Healthy, Sleeping, Coffee

Excerpts from an article by the Sleep Doctor, Michael J. Breus, PhD

“…coffee can be a healthy part of life–it doesn’t have to mess with your sleep.” There are a multitude of benefits that accompany coffee drinking, and now we have one more reason to add to the list: it can cut the risk of stroke in

Coffee Cuisine from Steve Petusevsky

Steve Petusevsky is Chef, author and natural foods gourmet and has created some recipes with coffee, quite similar to what I think coffee cuisine ought to be in the all around kitchen.

Coffee has several nutritious properties

Water, water in Coffee and water with Coffee

About water we may speak volumes and much more than what we might read in books, we may experience ourselves with all we have – skin, hairs, kidneys and more…

About Water there was an interesting documentary film I saw some time ago from Udo Maurer. Very different approaches and needs are the topic of this cinematic work, simply called “About Water” (translated from the German original – “Über Wasser”). Three different stories are told: about flood, drought and pollution and we are able to see the very different needs