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The United States Department of Agriculture has released its latest estimates for annual global coffee production, predicting a 1.5 million total drop to 147.8 million bags in 2014/15, despite rising demand...

Ingredients:

50 ml witte rum
3 teaspoons brown (cane) sugar
2 à 3 takjes Munt
1/2 lime
4 ice cubes (or same amount of crushed ice for best results)
150 ml water with prick
For the garnish:

1 limoenschijfje
1 straw
mint leaves as desired

Ingredients:

¾ c double-strength coffee, chilled
½ c skim milk
2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1/8 tsp peppermint extract
2 c ice cubes
sweetener, to taste (such as Stevia, Swerve, Truvia, etc.)
½ tsp miniature chocolate chips or dark chocolate, chopped

Ingredients

2 eggs (free range)
1/2 cup (125g) sugar
1 cup milk
2 cups cream, heavy or whipping
4T espresso powder
1t vanilla extract
3T café tequila liqueur (eg Patron XO Café)
1 cup malted puffs, roughly smashed in a bag, plus extra for serving

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INGREDIENTS:

1/2 cup sugar
1 cup water + 2 cups water
3 cups fresh strawberries, hulls removed
3/4 cup fresh-squeezed lemon juice (from 6-8 large lemons)
3/4 cup vodka
1/3 cup Cointreau liqueur
Additional strawberries and lemon slices for garnish, if desired

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The world of the weird cafe has moved on from cats.

And yet, while some of these obscure cafes grab headlines for a few days and then vanish, cat cafes have proliferated around the world, to become if not the most novel, certainly the most enduring craze when it comes to themed coffee houses...

You may currently grab a coffee while filling up your car at a petrol station, but in the future you could be refuelling your vehicle with the aromatic brown liquid too...

Summary

In 2011, the Montana-based Garcia, personal chef and founder of Montana Mex, was accidentally electrocuted during a hike, and subsequently lost part of his left arm. Since then, he has experimented with a variety of both digital and mechanical prostheses.

The mechanics must match the medium: when it comes to cooking, Garcia needs something that is hyper-responsive, adaptable, and can be both strong and sensitive. He needs something that can pluck a succulent berry without smashing it, for example, and then seamlessly switch to cutting up, say, a tough steak. Simply put, he requires a piece of technology that doesn't quite exist yet.

Garcia discusses the ideal wearable for a master of herbs and spices like himself: "If I were going to dream something up, it would be a non-harnessed, self-fastening prosthetic that has total sensitivity to touch, and total temperature sensitivity." He wants a faster, more adaptable tool, that offers him the ability to multi-task and to feel everything that's going on in the process. On top of those adaptations, Garcia imagines a prosthetic limb that has an LED screen that could display pH readings and instant-bacteria warnings. Fingers equipped with suction cups would also ensure that even the slipperiest foods wouldn't be a threat.

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The British consume a stunning amount of tea. The United Kingdom drinks the third-most tea per capita in the world, with an average intake of 4.281 pounds per person per year.

Depending on how much tea you think belongs in a properly prepared cup, that comes out to somewhere between 650 and 1,000 cups per person.

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me,” C.S. Lewis once remarked...