by Jessica Crowley This Saturday, February 19th is National Chocolate Mint Day! – Chocolate Mint Day celebrates anything and everything that is chocolate mint flavored. That includes mint ice cream, mint cookies, mint candies, coffees and chocolate mint desserts! Fun Fact: Chocolate mint also refers to an herb, specifically a hybrid mint plant, that tastes [...]
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National Hot Tea Month!
As much as I love coffee, I equally LOVE tea…especially a hot tea when the weather is oh-so-chilly! Fortunately, working for Portland Roasting, we are spoiled with a great selection of teas. We carry both Mighty Leaf and Numi Teas for all of Camellia Sinensis needs! Both brands carry a variety of white, green, oolong, [...]
From Samples to Sales
One of my favorite things to do as a child was visit Baskin-Robbins and use their little pink spoons to sample as many different ice cream flavors as they would let me try. Peanut butter and chocolate? Yes please. Raspberry cheesecake swirl? Don’t mind if I do! Whether they knew it or not, the scoop [...]
If Pachelbel drank coffee, he would use a Chemex
Sometimes, the simplest things can bring the most wonderful results. Take Canon in D major by Johann Pachelbel. At the beginning, it’s a simple 2 bar phrase that only ever uses 6 different notes. And yet, from that very basic opening, one of the most well-known pieces of music of all time emerges. Pachelbel understood [...]
