February 2012
8 posts
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How To Present A Cheese Board
There are lots of ways to serve a cheese board to get the best of your selection of cheeses.
The first thing you have to do is to choose a few cheeses that go well together. It’s probably best to choose some sort of theme such as milk type, region of origin, or type of cheese (e.g. cheddar cheese). Don’t forget that the weather can influence the sort of cheese that people want to eat...
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What Difference Does Roasting Make to Coffee?
A perfect roast is essential for great coffee, whether it is destined for coffee vending machines or a cafe. It’s the roasting that gives the coffee most of its flavour. The green beans undergo chemical and physical changes which create, alter and balance components.
Because green beans are more stable than roasted ones it is usual for the roasting process to be done near to where the...
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Coffee Drinking Around The World
Coffee is one of the most loved drinks on the planet for us humans and there are many different ways to drink it. The main way to drink it often varies with the country you live in. Before the black stuff hit the UK, it was being consumed in many other countries, all taking their their on slant on it and combining it with different rituals. Drinking coffee was something to be done with friends,...
Perfect gift for foodies for Valentines Day - heart shaped cheddar cheese from Godminster http://ow.ly/8PhJL
January 2012
9 posts
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What is Caffeol?
Caffeol is very interesting. It is found in coffee beans after they have been roasted and is a key part of what makes coffee smell like coffee. It was discovered and named around 1880 by a German called Bernheimer. He first mentioned it in his paper “Zur Kenntnis der Rostproducte des Caffees” which translates to “Note the Rust Products of the Cafes”. During his experiment Bernheimer was distilling...
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How coffee berries become the coffee beans you buy...
You might get your coffee from coffee vending machines, coffee shops or as roasted beans or grounds from a shop, but have you ever thought how the beans get to be the products that you know and love?
Coffee beans start out life on shrubs in warm climates such as Latin America, Africa and southern Asia. They are actually inside coffee berries at this stage and they are a green or red, fleshy berry...
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Kangaroo haggis anyone?
Just heard about the existence of kangaroo haggis. Interesting…
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All you could need to know about fish http://ow.ly/8yMaS seafoodacademy.org
2m tall storm trooper cake http://ow.ly/8xoRr
Taster who samples up to 40 ingredients a day has had her taste buds insured for £3million.
http://ow.ly/8uyRU
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A Brief History of Cheese making
Cheese is a food that has been around for thousands of years. It is a good way of making milk last longer and is a useful food because it is full of fat, protein and calcium. The earliest evidence of cheese making dates back to well before recorded history. It is possible that cheese was discovered by accident because animal intestines were used to carry food in. When milk was stored in the...
December 2011
17 posts
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Why Use Drinks Vending Machines?
Drinks vending machines are useful in the modern world. They make it possible to get hot and cold drinks at any hour of the day, seven days a week. Taking on board enough liquid is very important. If the body doesn’t get sufficient, we dehydrate and this can cause very serious problems. In an office environment, it means that concentration levels are not optimal and so staff become less...
Why Do Humans Need Water? http://ow.ly/86EFX
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What are the benefits of using a vending machine supplier? http://ow.ly/83ZuN
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Beautiful cheese boards →
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Why Choose Natural Organic Cheese over Processed...
Parents are told that giving sweets to children as a snack isn’t good for their health and that they should try and give healthier snacks such as fruit, cereal bars, nuts, vegetables and cheese. But are all cheeses equal?
Cheese is considered a useful food for children because it contains milk, and the milk contains calcium. Calcium is important for children because it helps build strong teeth and...
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Recipes from Masterchef - The Professionals →
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The Health Benefits of Coffee
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks on the planet and the bonus is that there are studies showing it good for you too. We have it in cafe’s, at home and on the go from vending machines - we love the stuff and it’s great news that it might be good for us too. Coffee contains active ingredients that affect the human body - the most famous one being caffeine. Many people drink coffee...
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Rules for Wine Tasting - this made me giggle →
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What is the quality of coffee from vending...
When you think of coffee vending machines, quality coffee might not immediately spring to mind. Whilst some machines do give poor quality coffee, you would be very wrong to think that all of them do. Some companies pride themselves on offering drinks that correlate to the standards you would find in a café. Common café coffees are Cappuccino (Espresso topped with foamed milk), Espresso (strong...
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Pour Moi Coffee Vending Machines
Pour Moi make some fab coffee vending machines. They’re going for the coffee shop take on vending so you get proper tasty coffee!
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The secrets of making good coffee http://ow.ly/7SLv3 No excuse for bad coffee over Christmas now!
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Why is Hot Food Important?
Hot food is important because it changes the food we consume. It has both historical and current significance. The heat created during cooking is an agent of a chemical process called denaturation which changes the proteins in food, unravelling the molecules and changing their physical and chemical properties. Depending on the proteins heated, the effect is to decrease solubility or to cause...
November 2011
20 posts
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Coffee
Coffee is a beverage that can be consumed hot or cold. It is actually one of the most widely consumed beverages in the whole world and one of the most widely traded commodities. The drink ‘coffee’ is made from coffee cherries which grow on trees in Southern Asia, Africa and Latin America. The cherries house the seeds which are known as coffee beans (although not actually true beans)...
Coffee vending machines in the office http://ow.ly/7CZwu - a good idea!
Modern Vending Machines http://ow.ly/7CYBD
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Large footstool →
jimoakhomeimprovement:
Clever storage footstool
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Hallway storage bench →
jimoakhomeimprovement:
Triple storage bench with 2 practical cupboards. Love it.
“Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.”
– Anton Chekhov
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Hot Food Vending
Vending machines have evolved over the years from selling food items such as crisps to being able to vend a hot meal. The advantage of food vending machines is convenience both for the machine owner and the consumer. The buyer can quickly and easily get some food and the vendor can quickly and easily sell with no need for staff to be present (which would add cost). The only man hours needed are...
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Vending
Vending companies in the UK - try the RefreshU group to find your local member.
“Cheese is milk’s leap toward immortality.”
– Cliff Fadiman
“Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.”
– (variously attributed)
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What's your favourite flavoured vodka and why?
I like the sloe vodka - suitably fruity
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Bored of Port and Sherry at Christmas? Try...
Christmas is traditionally the time of year when families and friends get together to eat and be merry. The same old drinks come out and the port and sherry make their annual appearance.
Whilst the old favourites are perhaps a must in your house, why not try something new too and introduce some flavoured vodkas to the festivities.
Vodka isn’t the rough drink that some may think. Depending on the...
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Tips for pairing cheese and wine
Pairing cheese and wine http://bit.ly/ssNKG1 A useful one for Christmas!