No biting the personnel

I’ve spent a lot of time recently at Vivace’s new location across from REI in downtown Seattle. As a friend of mine said: they don’t serve drip coffee; only espresso based drinks. It’s incredible how the folding of the milk or its temperature impacts the taste of the latte. If ever you’re looking for something sweeter, try out their Cafe Caramel.

Most of the weekend was spent cleaning. Over the last few month I’d accumulated too many magazines, Toastmasters documents, etc. It’s in sorting one of these pile that I found an old edition of National Geographic on “why we love caffeine.” What a coincidence! I delighted myself knowing that the barristas of my favorite spot could all outdo the latte art pictured: the leaf and the heart I see all the time.

There was one part of the article I thought I should write down here for you to read. Here’s the chart about caffeine from page 11 from the January 2005 edition: 

• Hershey’s milk chocolate almond bar, 6 oz — 25mg
• Espresso, 1-oz shot — 40 mg
• Brewed tea, 8-oz cup — 50 mg
• Coca-cola, 20-oz bottle — 57 mg
• Red Bull energy drink, 8.3-oz can — 80 mg
• Excedrin pain reliever, 2 tablets — 130 mg
• Brewed coffee, 12-oz cup — 200 mg
• Mountain Dew, 64-oz Double Big Gulp — 294 mg

A cup of joe has 5 times the caffeine of any drink with 1 shot of espresso.

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