Civet coffee is highly prized for its unique flavor and rarity, but consumption comes with ethical questions. Wildlife smuggling routes exist all throughout Asia as do criminal smuggling enterprises ...

If you brew your own espresso, you’ll know this about coffee: it’s easy to make a very dull drink from great beans. Just by letting them stale, for example. If you’ve been served expresso by an expert ...

In 2007’s The Bucket List, Jack Nicholson’s billionaire magnate is a fan of a luxury coffee called kopi luwak, only to be informed that the beans first pass through the digestive tracts of civets and ...

It has been described as nutty, chocolatey, earthy and even fishy: a wildly expensive coffee that can sell for more than 100 times the price of regular brews, made from beans eaten and excreted by ...

The CU Linguistics Semiotic Syntax Working Group is delighted to welcome Wesley Scivetti (Linguistics, Georgetown) for a virtual talk at the intersection of Construction Grammar and Natural Language ...

It has been described as nutty, chocolatey, earthy and even fishy: a wildly expensive coffee that can sell for more than 100 times the price of regular brews, made from beans eaten and excreted by ...

Coffee beans harvested from the faeces of the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) may have higher levels of fats and other key flavour-enhancing compounds than traditionally harvested beans.

Coffee beans collected from the faeces of civets have a unique chemistry that may explain why such beans are prized for their flavour. Asian palm civets (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) are mongoose-like ...

Coffee afficionados know that there are a myriad of brewing methods, bean varieties, and processing techniques that go into making that perfect cup of joe. But out of reach for many of them is an ...

For his “new version” of The Maids, Williams has branched out into modern telephony as his dramatic accomplice of choice. Each maid is armed with a smartphone, with which she films parts of the ...

Kip Williams’s adaptation of Jean Genet’s claustrophobic chamber piece The Maids arrives at the Donmar Warehouse following the international acclaim for his take on Wilde’s Dorian Gray, which saw ...