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From the comfort of home, consumers can craft Starbucks brewed coffee, expresso and caffé lattes with the touch of a button. Starbucks Coffee Co. recently launched the new generation of its Verismo System by Starbucks: the Verismo V Brewer. The new, single-cup brewing system offers a sleek design, enhanced features and an expanded coffee and expresso pod variety, including limited-edition pods such as Christmas Blend, which is available in brewed and espresso dark Verisomo pods. The new system also offers a Verismo Milk Frother that can be used with hot or cold milk for a Starbucks experience at home, it adds.
In honor of historical elections, W Hotels Worldwide debuted its “All the President’s Cocktails,” a coloring book that celebrated the drinking habits of the United States’ former Commanders in Chief with 12 pages of presidents and their favorite cocktails. From George Washington’s Whiskey Old Fashioned to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Gin Martini and Honest Abe’s Cucumber Stiletto Mocktail, each page included an illustration to color along with
a cocktail recipe. Illustrated by Lindsay Mound, the book was exclusively available to guests who stayed in the EWOW Suite, the hotel’s version of the Presidential Suite, at any of the 24 W Hotels throughout the United States from Oct. 28 to Election Day, Nov. 8.