Does Obama Drink coffee ....everyday ...?

Facts that Obama doesn't drink coffee and found only few pic about Obama drink his coffe , maybe he doesn't drink it regularly, maybe only for special occasion only.

here you can found 50 others Obama fact you might do not know...


• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
• He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball
• His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili
• His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini
• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father
• He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed
• He has read every Harry Potter book
• He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali
• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream
• His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars
• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia
• He can speak Spanish
• While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead
• His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea
• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't
• He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia
• He can bench press an impressive 200lbs
• He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name
• His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiancé, but left when a stripper arrived
• His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy
• He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) last year, with much coming from sales of his books
• His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck
• He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.
• His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees
• He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date
• He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker
• He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol
• He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician
• As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine
• His daughters' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7)
• He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside
• He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
• His house in Chicago has four fire places
• Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita
• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry
• He uses an Apple Mac laptop
• He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300
• He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits
• He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes
• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13)
• His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire
• He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers
• He was nicknamed "Bar" by his late grandmother
• He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds
• His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso
• His speciality as a cook is chilli
• He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"
• He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life
• His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government

Making Perfect Coffee

Expert Tips - Brewing Coffee
There are several factors that lead to a good cup - it’s not just the espresso machine. Your coffee has to be fresh (ground coffee loses flavour and body quickly), it has to be ground correctly for the extraction method you are using, the correct amount of coffee must be used - too little gives a thin flavour without balance and your equipment must be cleaned regularly. Water quality is important, use filtered water if possible.

That perfect cup in the cafe is due to the fact that the cafe turns its coffee over quickly so it is always fresh and the Barista making the coffee knows how to get the best from the equipment. Now you can too!

Beans
For the perfect cup, use nothing but the best quality Arabica coffee beans. Arabica beans are also known as 'specialty coffee' and 'gourmet coffee'. Bay Coffee Roasters only use carefully selected Arabica beans from the world over.

Water
If you notice any traces of chlorine, iron, or other minerals in your water, use a quality bottled or filtered water. Softened or distilled water should not to be used to brew coffee as they will affect the flavour of the coffee.

For the perfect water temperature, bring the water to a boil and let it cool a few seconds. Known as 'off the boil', the water is between 90 to 95 degrees Celsius. Water any cooler will not capture the full flavour of the beans. Boiling or reheating coffee literally boils away flavour.

Grind
The type of grind depends on the brewing technique: if the water is in contact with the coffee for a long period of time e.g. when using a plunger, the grind should be coarse.
If the water is to be in contact with the coffee for a short period of time e.g. when using a drip filter, the grind should be fine. Be sure your coffee beans are correctly ground for your brewing method.

It's said the best water-to-coffee ratio is 1 tablespoon of ground coffee (2 tablespoons of whole beans) for each 180ml of water.

The Manual Drip
The Manual Drip brewing process consistently produces superior coffee. Use fine ground coffee. Preheat the carafe or cup with hot water. Add coffee to the filter and place it on top of an insulated coffee carafe or cup. Evenly moisten the grounds (with water off the boil). Wait a few seconds, then add water to the top of the filter. (For more flavour let the grounds coat the sides of the filter, and not settle into the middle). Remove filter and stir coffee.

The Auto Drip
The Auto Drip brewing process produces coffee similar to the Manual Drip. Use fine ground coffee. Fill the coffee maker with cold water. Place a filter into the basket. Add 1 tablespoon ground coffee for each 180ml of water. Place coffee and filter into the holder, close lid, and turn on the machine.

Stove Top
Home Espresso coffee can be made either in a stove top espresso maker e.g. Bialetti or in a domestic electric espresso machine.

Use coffee ground medium fine.

When using a stove top always fill the coffee receptacle to the maximum level and firm down. This is because if there is insufficient coffee, or it is not packed, the water will pass through the coffee too quickly and not extract all the flavours. Unless supplied with a spacer it is not possible to use less coffee only the amount of water can be varied.

Add the required amount of water, fill the coffee holder with grounds wipe any grounds from the rim, firm the grounds and assemble the coffee maker.

Place on the stove until the water boils and the coffee is extracted.

Extraction is complete when the pot starts to hiss. Remove from the stove and wait a few seconds before pouring.


The Plunger or French Press
The Plunger or French Press is an excellent method for brewing the darker roasts and blends of beans and producing a full-textured coffee.

Use a medium to coarse grind of coffee. Preheat the pot and plunger with hot water. Add 1 tablespoon coffee for each 180ml cup into the glass cylinder. Slowly pour the water (just off the boil) into the cylinder and stir the grounds. Set the plunger on top of the cylinder and steep 2 to 4 minutes.

Press plunger down slowly (if the plunger does not press down easily, try a slightly coarser grind.) Allow sediment to settle for 30 seconds before pouring.

Home Espresso
If you are lucky enough to have a home espresso machine follow the manufacturer's instructions. Use medium fine ground coffee. Ask us to grind you a sample.

Ideal extraction will produce a full and persistent crema. Little or no crema indicates that the grind is too fine, a full crema that disipates quickly indicates the grind is too coarse. Good coffee is made in a preheated machine in warm cups. Always run some hot water through your machine first.

Source : Baycoffee.com.au

When you ordering coffee in your daily life , what kind of coffee did you exactly want ?

Order Like a Pro

Let's face it...ordering coffee can be intimidating the first few times. Here's how to sound like you know what you're doing...even before you really do!
Hot Stuff - The Basics

Hot Coffee drinks come in several different variations.

* Espresso - Often called a "shot", this is a small serving of very strong coffee, and forms the basis of all the other specialty coffee drinks.
* Latte - Espresso with steamed milk and a little bit of foam on top.
* Cappuccino - Espresso with frothed milk on top.
* Espresso Machiatto - Espresso with very little foam.
* Breve - A latte made with half and half rather than milk.
* Cafe au Lait - Steamed milk with brewed coffee (not espresso).
* Mocha - Latte with dark chocolate.
* White Mocha - Latte with white chocolate
* Americano - Espresso with hot water.
* Italiano - Espresso in brewed coffee.
* Steamer - Not really coffee at all, but steamed milk with one of several flavors added. (Kids love 'em.)

Coffee is an energy drink or not....?

Who thinks that coffee and energy drinks actually work and help you stay awake? Lets say you only got 4 hours of sleep and you have to wake up to go to work and then to school and in order to wake up you either drink coffee or an energy drink and do they actually wake you up or not.

Please share your experience with coffee.
Thanks

Do you know Starbucks has changed their logo three times since 1970

Starbucks is the largest coffee house retailer in the world today, with over 15,000 stores in over 42 countries. With a Starbucks store at almost every corner, millions of people see the famous Starbucks logo every day.

The distinctive Starbucks logo has achieved broad visual recognition, equal in familiarity to the Starbucks brand name itself. At the same time, a certain mystique surrounds the trademarked image and the unusual mermaid like figure at the center of the logo. What exactly does the mythical looking figure symbolize or represent, and what does it have to do with coffee?




The original logo, conceived in 1971, was fashioned after a 15th century Norse woodcut, the image of a mythical two-tailed mermaid siren. The siren, as you may recall from Greek mythology, was an alluring and irresistible female figure, typically half-fish/half-women (the mermaid variety). The siren's objective was to a seduce the seagoing mariner with a powerful enticing song most often to the unfortunate demise of the susceptible sailor who could not resist temptation.





With a coffee brown color scheme, the circular ring surrounding the mythological mermaid figure contained the text "Starbucks - Coffee - Tea - Spices". The overall image was designed to resemble a cigar band label.

The symbolism of the mermaid siren was not intended to suggest the demise of the customers who bought the coffee, but rather, to represent the irresistible and seductive quality of the coffee itself.

Over the last thirty five years, the logo has undergone several significant changes, while still adhering to the original theme.

The original version remained in use until 1987 when Howard Schultz raised sufficient capital from local investors to purchase Starbucks from the founders for 3.7 million.


Schultz had previously left Starbucks in 1985 to pursue his vision of a European style espresso cafe when he started the Il Giornale coffee house. The Il Giornale logo reflected a theme of speed with the head of Mercury, the swift messenger god of Roman mythology, at the center. The theme of swift speed fit well with espresso. Espresso translates to a "fast and express" coffee in Italian.

After the purchase of Starbucks in 1987, the Starbucks logo was cleaned up a bit, a little more befitting of a new corporate image. The bare breasts were covered up by the mermaids flowing hair, although her belly button was still visible. And the color scheme was changed from a coffee brown in the original logo to the familiar green established by the Il Giornale logo. The text in the surrounding circular band was changed to simply "Starbucks Coffee".


Second Starbucks logo, 1987 to 1992




A third revision of the Starbucks logo in 1992 crops the image of the mermaid with a close-up view. Her navel is no longer visible. The mermaid's tails on either side are mostly obscured which creates some mystery and question for those not familiar with the earlier logo.

Current Starbucks logo


Recently, with the April 2008 introduction of the new Pike Place Roast blend, Starbucks has re-introduced a version of the original logo. While this is not a replacement for the current Starbucks logo, you'ill find this retro-logo on the Pike Place Roast cups, and Pike Place Roast bags of coffee beans.

This new logo version is similar to the cigar motif of the original logo from the 1970’s with a few differences. The phrase around the perimeter of the old logo was “Starbucks - Coffee - Tea - Spices”. The new logo retains the familiar “Starbucks - Fresh Roasted Coffee”. And the bare breasts in the original mermaid image are not covered with her flowing locks of hair.

The marketing objective in bringing back this version of the original logo compliments the campaign slogan "Roasting coffee since 1971. The best cup then. The best cup now”.

Acknowledgement to the DeadProgrammers Blog for the excellent Starbucks logo detective work, and to Brand Autopsy's The Evolution of the Starbucks Logo for additional Starbucks logo research and reference to Howard Schultz's "Pour Your Heart Into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time".

From : gourment-coffee-zone.com