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Introduction
Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It has the highest sales in the world market for hot drinks.
The seeds of the Coffea plant's fruits are separated to produce unroasted green coffee beans. The beans are roasted and then ground into fine particles typically steeped in hot water before being filtered out, producing a cup of coffee. It is usually served hot, although chilled or iced coffee is common. Coffee can be prepared and presented in a variety of ways (e.g., espresso, French press, caffè latte, or already-brewed canned coffee). Sugar, sugar substitutes, milk, and cream are often added to mask the bitter taste or enhance the flavor.
Though coffee is now a global commodity, it has a long history tied closely to food traditions around the Red Sea. The earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking as the modern beverage appears in modern-day Yemen in southern Arabia in the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines, where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed in a manner similar to how it is now prepared for drinking. The coffee beans were procured by the Yemenis from the Ethiopian Highlands via coastal Somali intermediaries, and cultivated in Yemen. By the 16th century, the drink had reached the rest of the Middle East and North Africa, later spreading to Europe. (Full article...)
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- Image 1"Discussing the War in a Paris Café", The Illustrated London News, 17 September 1870 (from Coffeehouse)
- Image 3The Café de Flore in Paris is one of the oldest coffeehouses in the city. It is celebrated for its famous clientele, which included high-profile writers and philosophers. (from Coffeehouse)
- Image 4Caffè San Marco in Trieste, known for its artists, writers and intellectuals (2014) (from Coffee culture)
- Image 6The word coffee in various European languages (from Coffeehouse)
- Image 7Statue of Fernando Pessoa by Lagoa Henriques, next to the A Brasileira café, in Chiado, Lisbon. (from Coffeehouse)
- Image 8Caffe Reggio on MacDougal Street in New York City's Greenwich Village which was founded in 1927 (from Coffeehouse)
- Image 9Single serve Vietnamese drip filter (from Coffee preparation)
- Image 13The Federal Coffee Palace, built on Collins Street, Melbourne, in 1888, was the largest and grandest Coffee Palace ever built. It was demolished in 1973. (from Coffeehouse)
- Image 14Wheel coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
- Image 16Rumah Loer, a contemporary-style coffee shop (Indonesian: rumah kopi kekinian) in Palembang, Indonesia (from Coffeehouse)
- Image 18Kaffa kalid coffeepot, by French silversmith François-Thomas Germain, 1757, silver with ebony handle, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
- Image 20Central European Habsburg coffee house culture: news, coffee, the glass of water and the marble table top (2004) (from Coffee culture)
- Image 26An espresso by the glass in Trieste - in the local dialect "Nero in B" (from Coffee culture)
- Image 27Coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
- Image 30Coffee plantation (from History of coffee)
- Image 33Dutch engraving of Mocha in 1692 (from History of coffee)
- Image 34A 1652 handbill advertising coffee for sale in St. Michael's Alley, London (from History of coffee)
- Image 35Dutch coffee-roasting machine, c. 1920 (from Coffee preparation)
- Image 36Drip coffee maker (from Coffee preparation)
- Image 39A variation on the moka pot with the upper section formed as a coffee fountain (from Coffee preparation)
- Image 43In a pour-over, the water passes through the coffee grounds, gaining soluble compounds to form coffee. Insoluble compounds remain within the coffee filter. (from Coffee preparation)
- Image 44Café Tortoni is an emblematic café in Buenos Aires. Frequented by Jorge Luis Borges among many other figures of Argentina. (from Coffeehouse)
- Image 45Coffee house culture between Vienna and Trieste: the coffee, the newspaper, the glass of water and the marble tabletop (from History of coffee)
- Image 49Centre Place, Melbourne. Australia and New Zealand have competing claims as being the birthplace of the "flat white". (from Coffeehouse)
- Image 51Monsooned Malabar arabica, compared with green Yirgachefe beans from Ethiopia (from History of coffee)
- Image 53Syrian Bedouin from a beehive village in Aleppo, Syria, sipping the traditional murra (bitter) coffee, 1930 (from History of coffee)
- Image 54Café Zimmermann, Leipzig (engraving by Johann Georg Schreiber, 1732) (from History of coffee)
- Image 5518th century French plan of Mocha, Yemen. The Somali, Jewish and European quarters are located outside the citadel. The Dutch, English, Turkish and French trading posts are inside the city walls. (from History of coffee)
- Image 56Allow cold brew to steep for 8 to 24 hours (from Coffee preparation)
- Image 58Filter coffee being brewed (from Coffee preparation)
- Image 59Les Deux Magots in Paris, once a famous haunt of French intellectuals (2006) (from Coffee culture)
- Image 65Pope Clement VIII: The Pope who popularised coffee in Europe among Christians (from History of coffee)
- Image 66Coffeepot (cafetière "campanienne"), part of a service, 1836, hard-paste porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
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- ... that the Highfield Cocoa and Coffee House in Sheffield, England, sold tea, coffee and cocoa at a penny a pint and also provided billiards and reading rooms?
- ... that actor Tatsunari Kimura ate pancakes and drank coffee while talking for eight hours during the filming of the television drama Old-Fashioned Cupcake?
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- ... that Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly was released after the main creator of Coffee Talk died in March 2022?
- ... that the short story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was chosen by John Updike as a selection for the Today Show book club on NBC?
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- World Coffee Research – a 501 (c)(5) nonprofit program of the international coffee industry. (Wikipedia article: World Coffee Research)
- Coffee Research Foundation – based in Kenya, and founded in 1908
- Central Coffee Research Institute – based in Chickmagalur District, India, and founded in 1915