Wake up and smell the costs of coffee
Ever since – as the story goes – a goatherd brought coffee beans down from the Ethiopian highlands, humans have been held in the thrall of coffee. Espresso is a “pressed” and concentrated form of coffee, and when you add a dollop or a dose of steamed, frothy milk to it you get – respectively – a cappuccino or a latte. Once an acquired taste of more metropolitan coffee consumers, espresso is now a major part of many North American’s coffee routine.
And where once you would just order a regular old cup of Joe (or a double-double), now you have many options for dressing up your “coffee drink.” Too many, if you listen in on an order at most coffee shops these days: flavoured syrups, toppings galore, whipped cream, various levels of dry or wet foam. But what’s the cost of all of this coffee extravagance – to our health as well as to our savings accounts?
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