Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Caffeinated Classics: Darkness at Noon

We at Coffee Hero wondered whether you could get a decent cup of coffee behind the Iron Curtain.

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Caffeinated Classics: Transcendentalist Style

Coffee ruined Henry Thoreau’s day, and failed to help Ralph Waldo Emerson nurture his genius.

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Caffeinated Classics: Brave New World

Can permanent happiness be achieved without coffee? It seems implausible, and “Brave New World” author Aldous Huxley apparently agrees.

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Caffeinated Classics: East of Eden 3

East of Eden characters drink coffee in many of the book’s most pivotal scenes. A few times, it almost seems ceremonial.

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Caffeinated Classics: East of Eden 2

As a literary dork and coffee junkie, I can’t help but notice when coffee shows up in the books I read:
Tom Hamilton loves his sister Dessie more than anyone else in the family.  That is why Tom loses it when Dessie falls in love, if it can be called that — her love is “a [...]

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Caffeinated Classics: East of Eden

As a literary dork and coffee junkie, I can’t help but notice when coffee shows up in the books I read:

Samuel Hamilton was born in Ireland, but settled down in California’s Salinas Valley in the late 1800s.  He digs a well for Adam Trask, a newcomer from Connecticut, shortly after the turn of the century.  [...]

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