World Barista Championship


	World Barista Championship

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6-23-2008 12:03 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3b23322c-846a-419e-8614-94062d57ce63/CF32A3F8-62CC-457F-A6F2-9CE9D338D039/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/21/business/21offline.html?scp=4&sq=coffee&st=cse" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/21/business/21offline.html?scp=4&sq=coffee&st=cse" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/21/business/21offline.html?scp=4&sq=coffee&st=cse"><P><SPAN class="bold">FINAL TAKE</SPAN> In case you have forgotten, the World Barista Championship  ends Sunday in Copenhagen. Competitors have 15 minutes to prepare 12 drinks — four cappuccinos, four espressos and four original beverages. “Last year’s winner concocted an espresso topped with tobacco-infused cream,” Theunis Bates reports in <SPAN class="bold">Fast Company</SPAN>.</P><P>In honor of the competition, the magazine notes these coffee facts: </P><P>¶Coffee is the world’s second most-traded commodity. Oil is first.</P><P>¶Worldwide retail sales of coffee are $80 billion a year, up from $30 billion in 1990. </P><P>¶Some 23,000 cups of coffee are “downed around the world every second (that’s more than 710 billion cups a year).” </P><P>For those keeping score at home, Copenhagen has won the barista championship four times in the last eight years. </P><P><SPAN class="bold">PAUL B. BROWN</SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CF32A3F8-62CC-457F-A6F2-9CE9D338D039/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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