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Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, who is celebrated in today’s Google doodle, was the discoverer of caffeine and the first person to isolate quinine, but his contribution to chemistry is often overlooked. Check out this Article by Sam Wong and learn all about the Godfather of Caffeine. While sipping away at your various Café delicacies today, tip […]
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Ahhh I cannot function without ze coffee! Totally running on caffeine and books here. Currently reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman 🙂 What about you?
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I am reading that as well! 🙂 I adore his writing.
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Hello! I’m Carl, avid reader of fiction, history, adventure, and naturalist writings. I enjoy hiking, travel, and photography. I’m a Tennessee resident, but love the PNW–one of my favorite hikes ever was backpacking the Three Sisters Loop in Oregon. I’m a code monkey who writes software for a living. Favorite tea is Huangshan maofeng. Nice to (virtually) meet you!
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Nice to meet you! I’m gonna have to try that tea 🙂
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i can’t say i have a book on coffee/mentions of same said but I like a few movie scenes first is Beethoven’s 2nd – wherein dad overseas a simple scene of kiddo getting a cup of coffee to start the day, an it’s kinda part of the club thing — or a very much older movie “In tThe Heat Of the night – cclark gable showing the PROPER way to dunk a doughnut with that same said coffee. – which is about where the Bugs Bunny comes from a propmo photo of clark eating a carrot with top hanging down comes from available on youtube if you just missed it 😉 – it’s on eighty three years old. — tea however was two books: james l pratt’s “a tea lover’s treasury” and a mention of a specific tea in james fennimore cooper’s leather stocking tales i believe book four don’t hold me to ihat one 😉 of lapseng su chong a specific black tea smoked. i.e. coffee’s fine I have a cup and i also like me some tea 😉
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Those were great 🙂 Thank you!
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Coffee is life… though I’ve been known to sip the occasional green tea every now and then! Currently reading Dennis Lehane’s “Live by Night”, a Steinbeck collection, and have just begun re-reading Stephen King’s “On Writing”. A writer’s gotta read!
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Iced Green tea usually replaces coffee for me when it’s hot, I love it. I’m not a huge fan of iced coffee.
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I’m currently reading The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. I love the idea of both coffee and tea, but really don’t like either one. I know I’m weird. I’d like nothing better to come in from the rain to a nice cup of tea, or have a steaming mug of coffee first thing in the morning. But I don’t…
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Have you ever tried tea with steamed milk and honey?
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Tea is the only possible answer. Currently rereading the Game of Thrones series – not sure why as the next book is never going to be published so I’ll just be waiting forever!
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Hello…. Coffee and Books for me all the way and of course taking small breaks to cuddle with my dogs. Currently reading Amish’s (an Indian author) latest work…
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Sounds very interesting. Thank you for sharing 🙂
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I prefer tea, but I LOVE the smell of coffee. It is one of the best smells to read to, I think. 🙂
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I couldn’t agree more 🙂
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Are you going to list out the books everyone put for “other” on the first poll? Might be interesting… 🙂
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Fantastic Idea!
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If you are allowed only one book, pick up a Larousse Dictionary. Endless stories. 🙂
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