With 80% of Americans drinking coffee daily but only 10% choosing specialty, Steel Oak's interactive Flavor Wheel helps consumers explore higher-quality options as rising commodity prices close the ...

Coffee, like wine, can be hard to characterize. Sure, it’s easy enough to identify bitter, or sweet, or even herbal flavors---but professionals in the coffee biz rely on a more nuanced lexicon to ...

How to Spend a Day in the Rockaways From the focaccia worth grabbing before lying in the sun to the spot where beachgoers can spend some quiet time with the Jamaica Bay fauna.

Most people would describe their coffee fairly simply: hot, black, sweet, expensive. But there’s an organization, the Specialty Coffee Association of America, that takes the art of explaining what a ...

Sweet. Floral. Nutty. Baristas and coffee enthusiasts often use these words—and many more—to describe the flavor nuances of different coffees. The flavor wheel below from the Specialty Coffee ...

At his Barista Training Academy in Panchsheel Park, New Delhi, Binny Varghese is brewing more than just good coffee — he is creating an inclusive vocabulary for how we talk about it. Last year, the ...