She served Gadbois his coffee first, before coming around to my side.
First, when people who drink coffee in the morning think about breakfast, they usually think about coffee first, and then about something that goes with coffee.
Last month, Starbucks announced the purchase of its first coffee farm, a verdant 600-acre property in the Costa Rican mountains.
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But as it turns out, the first coffee plant in Europe was grown in the Amsterdam Botanical Garden greenhouses, in 1706.
Three years before moving to California, he says, he started the first coffee and natural juice delivery service in the Myungdong neighborhood in Seoul.
And I had to be at my desk, at my office, with the first cup of coffee, a legal pad and write the first word at 5:30, five days a week.
Having prospered first with coffee and then with industrialisation, it is now reinventing itself in the services sector.
He had his first iced coffee of 2009 at La Colombe in Tribeca on April 2nd (and he thought it was delicious).
Almost eight out of 10 of those surveyed drank tea, coffee or cola either first thing or mid morning - periods of the day in which stress levels also peak for most workers.
By restoring some of the magic that propelled coffee to greatness in the first place, Starbucks may well help launch the next great revolution.
Coffee was summoned and the first of many enjoyable sittings began.
As far as it can be traced back, a Ukrainian war hero named Yuri Kulczycki brewed the first cup of coffee in Vienna sometime soon after the Battle for Vienna in 1683, in a place called Under the Blue Bottle.
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An hour later I'm in another coffee shop about to start my first meeting.
Alister stops outside a restaurant that could be a first cousin to the coffee shop in Amundsen.
When Streamline, an Internet home shopping service, sends you a cup of coffee and a video, the first comes from Starbucks, the second from Blockbuster.
But again I seriously doubt this was the first instance of Irish whiskey and coffee meeting.
First the food: croissants, coffee (cappuccino or latte), warm wraps, cold drinks.
The brewing style differs from a traditional Turkish three-time boil as the coffee gets removed from the stove when the first chocolatey foam pops to the surface.
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Coffee has been central to Turkish culture since the first coffeehouses in the 1500s.
At first I thought this was cool, until I watched the first pot and remembered how simple a coffee maker is: a heating coil and a pump.
Some of the discussions happen over coffee, as one Vatican spokesman revealed Monday, the first day of the general congregations.
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The first is the ever-growing demand for coffee all over the world, especially as more countries develop a strong, robust middle class that requires coffee to function.
Eighty-six percent of its profits in the first two quarters of 2011 came from gains in coffee options.
The next morning, over coffee in the GHF courtyard, Sarun told me he had first visited the main Banteay Chhmar ruin in 1997.
The first rise was complete before we'd finished our coffee.
It is the first time a national British institution has agreed to serve coffee which bears the official Fairtrade Mark label guaranteeing a fair deal for plantations in developing countries.
But centuries before intercontinental carbonation or the rise of the European coffee house filled with intellectuals with brains sharpened by caffeine, the first beverage which marked civilization's improvement upon nature was beer.
At our first meeting, he went around the large conference room pouring coffee for everyone who wanted it.
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How different would our twenty-first century lives be if there were no such thing as coffee to buzz and energize us?
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Should the Romneys take up residence, no doubt the liquor cabinets will be among the first to go, soon followed by the tea caddy and the coffee pot.
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