If you’ve tried baking with coffee, drinking it, composting the used grounds and using it as a beauty treatment, how about getting touch with your creative side by painting with coffee? Several artists now create watercolour-style paintings using nothing but coffee – and some also incorporate coffee grounds to add texture. Thai artist Pornchai Lerthammasiri […]
The flavour of fresh coffee transforms ice cream into a sophisticated adult dessert. This recipe is easy to make in an ice cream maker, and keeps well in the freezer for several weeks. Once you’ve mastered the recipe, try our suggestions for variations. You’ll need: 4 tablespoons of coffee, made from freshly-ground coffee beans (fine […]
The strong, distinctive flavour of coffee is a perfect cocktail ingredient, whether you use fresh coffee or a coffee flavoured liqueur. Here’s our pick of the best recipes: Black Magic – mix equal quantities of Tia Maria and vodka together, and add lemon juice to taste. Serve over crushed ice. Amaretto Choco Latte – Use […]
Forget paper crafts, blue tack animal sculptures or other activities to curb your office boredom, because Think Geek has a new invention. If you love coffee and you like playing with Lego, check out the Build-On Brick Mug by Think Geek. They’ve cleverly designed a functional and fun coffee mug you can play with and drink from. […]
Imagine flicking through a recipe book and smelling the food through the pages, reading a book infused with scents, or picking up your junk mail to throw it in the bin, only to discover that you can actually smell the product its advertising. Creative Directors at the advertising agency, DC Thomson & Co may not […]
Statistics can be scary; you know, the kind that tell you exactly how much you’ve spent on chocolate, cigarettes, alcohol… (insert your creature comfort here) over the last 10 years. I’m not going to bombard you with lots of preachy data, but I will tell you that I recently came across a study outlining that about one […]