This is our four-legged friend Montana & two-legged friend Mark enjoying a sunny afternoon out in front of the cafe. Hopefully there will be lots more days like this… Benches look so lonely without anyone on ‘em!
Before Ken, Quinn & Andy left on their cross-country trip, they had a little pow-wow at Boneshakers.
They’d just bought a 3-person tent and weren’t sure how to set it up, so naturally I offered up our cafe floor space!
Aren’t they cute!
Maybe we should always have a tent set up in the cafe….
They’re HUGE!
Our friend and boneshaker employee, Andy, recently left by NYC by train to Portland, OR to start a 3 month cross country bike tour with a couple of friends. You can follow their tour on http://www.twoarmparty.com/
Have fun Andy, Quinn, and Ken!
These are chocolate cupcakes with peppermint frosting and vanilla cupcakes with strawberry frosting.
Made to order..
What’s the BEST combination EVER?
In my opinion, it’s Chocolate & Peanut Butter.
Thus, I baked these cookies.
You can buy them one at a time, but you’ll want more. So order them by the dozen. Do it.
Halston forwarded this link to me… I thought it was totally worth sharing!
http://www.newyorkshitty.com/?p=13907
Drinking coffee may do more than just keep you awake. A new study suggests an intriguing potential link to mental health later in life, as well.
A team of Swedish and Danish researchers tracked coffee consumption in a group of 1,409 middle-age men and women for an average of 21 years. During that time, 61 participants developed dementia, 48 with Alzheimer’s disease.
After controlling for numerous socioeconomic and health factors, including high cholesterol and high blood pressure, the scientists found that the subjects who had reported drinking three to five cups of coffee daily were 65 percent less likely to have developed dementia, compared with those who drank two cups or less. People who drank more than five cups a day also were at reduced risk of dementia, the researchers said, but there were not enough people in this group to draw statistically significant conclusions.
Dr. Miia Kivipelto, an associate professor of neurology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and lead author of the study, does not as yet advocate drinking coffee as a preventive health measure. “This is an observational study,” she said. “We have no evidence that for people who are not drinking coffee, taking up drinking will have a protective effect.”
Dr. Kivipelto and her colleagues suggest several possibilities for why coffee might reduce the risk of dementia later in life. First, earlier studies have linked coffee consumption with a decreased risk of type 2 diabetes, which in turn has been associated with a greater risk of dementia. In animal studies, caffeine has been shown to reduce the formation of amyloid plaques in the brain, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. Finally, coffee may have an antioxidant effect in the bloodstream, reducing vascular risk factors for dementia.
Dr. Kivipelto noted that previous studies have shown that coffee drinking may also be linked to a reduced risk of Parkinson’s disease.
The new study, published this month in The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, is unusual in that more than 70 percent of the original group of 2,000 people randomly selected for tracking were available for re-examination 21 years later. The dietary information had been collected at the beginning of the study, which reduced the possibility of errors introduced by people inaccurately recalling their consumption. Still, the authors acknowledge that any self-reported data is subject to inaccuracies.
Today is your chance to hang out at Boneshakers and drink FREE samples of various Gimme! Coffee roasts and blends.
Come in and get some!
The fun starts around 11:30am and goes till we run out of coffee!!! Perfect for your lunch break!
(I borrowed the following images from the wonderful www.gimmecoffee.com website!)
Our dear friend Aleks sent this image to me today, in celebration of Obama being sworn in as our new President.
Those guys over at the Gimme! shop on Lorimer are stoked!
“Gimme Obama!”
PS - Stop into Boneshakers tomorrow (Wed., Jan. 21st) around 11:30am to get some free Gimme! coffee!
We’re hosting a tasting at the cafe and a handful of the incredibly knowledgable and friendly Gimme! folks will be on hand with samples of fresh coffee and to answer any coffee questions you may have. Cool, huh?
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