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Can 11-year-old kids drink coffee?
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (736+ words) My Daughter Came Home From a Sleepover With a New Habit. She’s Way Too Young for This. Slate Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding,…...
Coffee alternatives from mushrooms and herbs are everywhere. Are they any good?
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (690+ words) A Wave of Earthy Upstarts Is Looking to Replace Your Morning Coffee. Better Hold On to Your Beans. Slate An integral part of my personal mythology is my deep relationship with coffee. I’ve been drinking the dark brew since I…...
For Almost 100 Years, American Tea Lovers Were Protected by an Obscure Regulation. Its Downfall Has Been Tough to Swallow.
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (362+ words) On a winter morning in early 1995, three women and five men sat nearly elbow-to-elbow at a round wooden table in an office on the Brooklyn waterfront as rain battered the windows. In front of them were canisters, spoons, spittoons, and…...
What Is Added to Coffee to Create “Proffee”?
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (73+ words) Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for Nov. 18, 2025. More Games From Slate Slate Mini Crossword for Nov. 18, 2025 Slate Crossword: Boy Who Should’ve Listened When He Was Told to Mind His Own Beeswax? (Six Letters) The Duke of Wellington and…...
It’s Called America’s “Weirdest” City. But Just Wait Until You Hear What’s Going On in Its Coffee Shops.
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (1288+ words) Biking is just better with a caffeine buzz. This was in 2023, and biking to 100 coffee shops appealed to me as a way of getting back in touch with the city after the tumult and isolation of the pandemic years, to…...
There’s One Classic Fall Taste That Needs Improvement—and It’s Not Pumpkin Spice
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (363+ words) Examined this way, the torte’s veneration starts to track. And it’s no surprise that since it migrated online with the rest of the Times’ culinary archive, the recipe’s cult has only grown. But don’t worry, we can translate and update…...
There’s Only One Thing That Got Me to Stop Drinking Coffee. I Would Have Never Guessed What It Was.
11+ mon, 6+ day ago (470+ words) This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. I come from a clan of serious coffee drinkers. As most kitchens were percolating Folgers or Maxwell House, my parents ground beans and made pour-overs with their Chemex…...
There’s a Bitter Battle Tearing the Coffee World Apart. And It’s About to Spill Over Into Your Morning Cup.
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (283+ words) But how do these coffee sommeliers actually judge, in quantifiable terms, the fine arabicas of the world? Well—until recently—that was the Q. Coffee buyers at the world’s largest trading and roasting firms are usually licensed Q graders. Even…...