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Heard Up North: Iced "Dirty Chai" in Saranac Lake
Inside Adirondack Bean-To Coffee.
Inside Adirondack Bean-To Coffee.
(07/27/10) Drew Benmore, a music professor and Malone native who works at Adirondack Bean-To Coffee and spends his summers in Saranac Lake, explains how to make a "dirty chai" iced drink for a hot summer day.

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Books: Drugs, Labor and Colonial Expansion
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(12/04/03) Are you drinking that third cup of coffee in the morning because you want to savor the taste, or because the caffeine is a way to make you a more productive member of the work force? Readers and Writers co-host Chris Robinson talks with Dan Bradburd, an anthropologist at Clarkson University who gives us a surprising answer. Bradburd is the co-editor of the new book, Drugs, Labor and Colonial Expansion.
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