Word: cuppa
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Emel Kurhan, 33, accessories designer I'd start the day with freshly squeezed carrot juice and a coffee at Cuppa, tel: (90-212) 249 5723, in Cihangir. Then I'd go to Divan Kurucesme, tel: (90-212) 257 7150, for a swim in the leafy, secluded pool overlooking the Bosphorus. Afterward, I'd grab a scoop of pistachio ice cream at Mini in Bebek, tel: (90-212) 257 1070, an Istanbul tradition and the best ice cream in town...
...Could those production snags trickle down to the price of a cuppa joe? The signs are that they are starting to. U.S. food company Kraft upped the price of its Maxwell House Colombian ground coffees by roughly a fifth in April. Rival Smucker's made a similar move earlier in the month for its brand, Folgers. Tea drinkers are being milked for more too. Responding to increased market prices, Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever - owner of the PG tips and Scottish Blend brands - plans to increase the cost of its tea bags by about 10% in the coming weeks. Patrons...
George Orwell called it a mainstay of civilization; William Gladstone praised its revitalizing powers. But to Henrietta Lovell, founder of London's Rare Tea Company, the traditional British cuppa is overrated. "People in the U.K. are used to drinking really cheap, industrially produced tea," she says...
...Drink your cuppa neat. Don't spoil it with milk or sugar...
...middle-class working people who were the heart of the party in the days of Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson have gone to the Republicans," says Paul Begala, a Texas Democrat who helped Bill Clinton reach the White House in 1992. "We still have the latte drinkers, but the cuppa-joe drinkers are mostly gone, and the Democrats have to find a way to bring them back...