JUST WHAT WE ALL NEED: MORE CAFFEINE

As if my daily Starbucks doesn’t pump me with enough caffeine, now a new product out of New Orleans will give me yet another excuse to keep up the hype: N.O. Brew.

Those 100 degree days are coming, this new drink sounds as delicious as my favorite award-winning hat at yesterday’s Mad Hatters Tea: the Starbucks hat. A sister caffeine addict created an entire Starbucks hat complete with latte and frappaccino cups and even a stir stick atop. When asked if she had stock in the ‘Bucks, she said she should and confessed to at least two trips a day to Starbucks. Figures she drops about $5,000 a year on coffee. We have with held her name to protect her from spousal wrath. Good thing about this N.O.: can be purchased at Whole Foods Market, hidden in the “grocery bill”. (Now, if Whole Foods would only start carrying shoes…)