| Section | Article | Contributor |
| Cafe Culture | Alex's Worst Cup of Coffee Ever | Alex Scofield |
| | My love of coffee is partially a taste for the gourmet, and partially a need for caffeine. Caffeine cravings prevent me from being 100 percent uppity about coffee quality – in a pinch, I’ll drink mass-market or fast-food coffee that would make some of my INeedCoffee colleagues retch. | |
| Cafe Culture | Coffee Talk | Tim Schenck |
| | I never used to drink coffee. I made it through college, the Army, work as a political campaign manager, a coffee-drinking wife, seminary, and one child. The combination of two children under the age of two and full-time work in parish ministry, however, put me over the edge. | |
| Cafe Culture | Coffee! Or, my love affair with the java bean | Mike Creamer |
| | When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is sniff the air, hoping to catch a whiff of the coffee that brewed itself for me ten minutes before I woke up. | |
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| Cafe Culture | Coffeehouse Confessions | Tom Coffee |
| | I knew I had a problem. I just couldn't admit it. | |
| Cafe Culture | Foggy Morning | Michael Rohde |
| | This morning I'm a visitor on another planet, one that's identical to my own, except for the fog. Fog breaks the light and forces it in directions it hadn't intended going. | |
| Cafe Culture | I Love Coffee | Damaa Bell |
| | I have been trying to wean myself off of coffee lately. I thought it might be a good time to replace my morning cup 'o' joe with a nice healthy cup of tea now that the weather has cooled. The only problem is that I LOVE COFFEE! | |
| Coffee Business | Is It Really Coffee? | Holland Morgan |
| | We see them everywhere now. Instant cappuccino machines, there’s at least one (if not five) in every gas station. I’ve seen them in car dealerships and even in a hardware store, some of them daring to sport names like Barista. | |
| Health | No Coffee or Tea For At Least 2 Weeks | Michael Allen Smith |
| | I messed up. I messed up bad. A few weeks ago I got a direct mail advertisement for a dentist offering new patients a free Zoom teeth whitening with the purchase of a cleaning and X-rays. | |
| Cafe Culture | Searching for the Perfect Cup | Rick Abbott |
| | Richard S. Abbott describes his personal coffee journey. | |
| Cafe Culture | So, You Love Coffee, Right?? | Mike Walton |
| | Mike Walton tells us about his love affair with coffee that started at age 10. | |
| Cafe Culture | The Coffee Cups | Ellen Ulken |
| | Ellen Ulken's short story. | |
| Cafe Culture | The Tombs | Bill Talen |
| | What am I doing in this jail? It's amazing how quickly the iron bars make me question the whole thing. The Tombs. | |
| Coffee Business | Why We Hate Starbucks | Sebastian Little |
| | Why we should and Why we probably shouldn't. | |