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The U.S. Barista Competition is underway, pitting the espresso elite against one another for top honors.

A Seattle barista says it was all satire, but his anonymous blog that made snarky comments about his boss and the customers he didn’t like got him fired.

You might think that the modern coffee craze began in 1971 with the opening of the first Starbucks in Seattle, Wash. Scroll back the clock a bit further and you will discover the real forerunner of our caffeine-crazed coffee culture: Dallis Bros. Coffee.

Hawaii’s oldest food festival will once again host more than 40 events throughout the 2012 Kona Coffee Cultural Festival slated for November 2-11.

Starbucks Corp. is turning up the heat on the single-serve coffee market, and someone might get burned.

Starbucks purchased the Evolution Fresh brand late last year for $30 million. The California-based company uses fresh fruits and a process called high-pressure pasteurization to make the juice without heating it.

Kohana Coffee announced the introduction of their organic, fair trade "shelf-stable" Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate to the market, the first of its kind in the coffee industry.

The vibrant Parisian shopping destination, recently lauded for having one of the largest shoe departments in the world, just opened a new branch of the famous Paris tea room, restaurant, and boutique, Angelina.

KRUPS USA, world leader in coffee, espresso machines and kitchen appliances, announced the winners of the "KRUPS Best Brew Awards" for 2012. The annual campaign, now in its second year, was introduced to discover the best coffee shops across the nation.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement.