Each additional daily cup of coffee was associated with a 1 percent decrease in the risk of prostate cancer. Drinking coffee may lower the risk for prostate cancer. Researchers combined data from 16 prospective studies that calculated the risk associated with the highest versus the lowest coffee consumption. In all, …
Read More »Crown Technologies’ Robot Barista To Serve Coffee At Japan’s Train Stations – Now Worth S$33M
Singapore’s retail tech startup Crown Technologies announced today (Jan 11) that it inked its first major, cross-border deal with JR East Business Development SEA Pte. Ltd, a subsidiary of East Japan Railway Company. This brings the company to an initial valuation of S$ 33 million. The Crown brand is one …
Read More »7 Handy Household Uses for Coffee
Carrastock / Shutterstock.com Coffee is something of a miracle. It makes early mornings possible for many folks. It also bestows health benefits that reportedly range from a longer life to a lower risk of dementia. You also can enlist coffee beans, grounds and even the plant itself in an array …
Read More »The Art Of The Coffee Table Stack
Coffee table books are inherently aspirational. First, you have to have a coffee table—which means you have to have a living room, and not a bedroom in the kitchen of a closet you share with three friends from college. You also have to have the dough to invest in several …
Read More »How to Stop Drinking Coffee, and Why You Should Consider It
Thank you for reading past the title of this post. I wasn’t sure anyone would. After all, here I am offering advice on how to quit the world’s most beloved beverage. (“Hold my beer,” says Beer.) The love of coffee transcends national and cultural borders. Around the world, most of …
Read More »6 Top-Rated Coffee Makers Under $140
Photo by Daxiao Productions / Shutterstock.com Many of us cannot imagine starting the day without a cup of coffee. But brewing the perfect cup of joe is no easy feat. The quality of coffee is tied closely to how it is brewed. Now, Consumer Reports has tested and evaluated various …
Read More »Something’s Brewing: How Cafes Are Leveraging On The Cold Brew Coffee Subscription Trend
From a good ol’ cup of kopi at the hawker centre to a long black at a third wave coffee joint, Singapore indeed has a vibrant coffee culture. The coffee industry in Singapore traditionally has two faces: kopitiam stalls that sell hundreds of cups each morning, and speciality coffeehouses that …
Read More »How This S’porean Grew Her Coffee Subscription Startup Into A Regional E-Coffee Brand
“Sustainability and profitability are complementary,” Faye Sit surmises of Hook Coffee, in her interview with Vulcan Post. In the span of just four years, the co-founder of the e-coffee brand has evolved from a two-man startup into “Singapore’s largest and Southeast Asia’s leading online coffee company”, she said. The secret? …
Read More »This Cyberjaya Café Is Purposely Choosing To Only Use Coffee Beans From Sabahan Farmers
Author’s Blurb: I appreciate a good cup of coffee, but I’m not super particular about how it’s made or what beans it’s made out of. Most cafes I’ve been to seem to pride themselves on using imported premium beans of all sorts, but recently I learnt about one that specifically …
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