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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.

Coffee production begins when the seeds of the Coffea plant's fruits (coffee cherries) are separated to produce unroasted green coffee beans. The beans are roasted and then ground into fine particles. Coffee is brewed from the ground roasted beans, which are typically steeped in hot water before being filtered out. 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. There are also various coffee substitutes.

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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A bikini barista at Bottoms Up Espresso's drive-thru in Clovis, California (2020)

A bikini barista is a woman who works as a barista, preparing and serving coffee beverages, while dressed in scanty attire such as a bikini, lingerie or a crop top combined with bikini bottoms or hotpants. In the United States, this marketing technique (sometimes referred to as sexpresso or bareista) originated in the Seattle, Washington area in the early 2000s. Similar phenomena have appeared in countries such as Chile and Japan since at least the 1980s. (Full article...)

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Image 1Roadside café with a summer terrace. Buryatia, Russia (from Coffeehouse)
Image 2A Viennese coffeehouse (2004) (from Coffee culture)
Image 3A coffee shop in Bacoor, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
Image 4Moka 2 Cup Coffee Fountain (from Coffee preparation)
Image 5Central European Habsburg coffee house culture: news, coffee, the glass of water and the marble table top (2004) (from Coffee culture)
Image 6Moka pot (from Coffee preparation)
Image 7"Café" neon sign in Breda (from Coffeehouse)
Image 8Syrian Bedouin from a beehive village in Aleppo, Syria, sipping the traditional murra (bitter) coffee, 1930 (from History of coffee)
Image 9Café Tortoni is an emblematic café in Buenos Aires. Frequented by Jorge Luis Borges among many other figures of Argentina. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 10Statue of Fernando Pessoa by Lagoa Henriques, next to the A Brasileira café, in Chiado, Lisbon. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 11Coffee plantation (from History of coffee)
Image 12Filter coffee being brewed (from Coffee preparation)
Image 13A café in a former church, Utrecht (from Coffeehouse)
Image 14A cup of coffee with cheesecake at a cafe in Helsinki, Finland (from Coffee culture)
Image 15Rumah Loer, a contemporary-style coffee shop (Indonesian: rumah kopi kekinian) in Palembang, Indonesia (from Coffeehouse)
Image 16Family in Söderhamn, Sweden, seated for fika (c. 1916) (from Coffee culture)
Image 17Palestinian women grinding coffee, 1905 (from History of coffee)
Image 18Dutch coffee-roasting machine, c. 1920 (from Coffee preparation)
Image 19Drip coffee maker (from Coffee preparation)
Image 20Monsooned Malabar arabica, compared with green Yirgachefe beans from Ethiopia (from History of coffee)
Image 21A coffee shop at a library in Melbourne (2006) (from Coffee culture)
Image 22Café Mélange, Vienna (from Coffeehouse)
Image 23Dutch engraving of Mocha in 1692 (from History of coffee)
Image 24A 1652 handbill advertising coffee for sale in St. Michael's Alley, London (from History of coffee)
Image 25Home espresso machine with pump (from Coffee preparation)
Image 26Wheel coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
Image 27The Grey Owl Coffee shop in Norman, Oklahoma (from Coffeehouse)
Image 28Home espresso machine without pump (only with steam pressure) (from Coffee preparation)
Image 29Cafés in central Tirana (2017) (from Coffee culture)
Image 30An espresso by the glass in Trieste - in the local dialect "Nero in B" (from Coffee culture)
Image 31A coffee bearer, from the Ottoman quarters in Cairo (1857) (from Coffee culture)
Image 32Inside of a kopitiam, Malaysia (from Coffeehouse)
Image 33"Discussing the War in a Paris Café", The Illustrated London News, 17 September 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War (from Coffeehouse)
Image 34Pope Clement VIII: The Pope who popularised coffee in Europe among Christians (from History of coffee)
Image 35Coffeehouses often sell pastries or other food items. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 3618th 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 37In 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 38Café Ekberg in 2024 (from Coffeehouse)
Image 39Trieste from where the cappuccino spread (from Coffeehouse)
Image 40Caffè Florian in Venice (2015) (from Coffee culture)
Image 41A variation on the moka pot with the upper section formed as a coffee fountain (from Coffee preparation)
Image 42The Coffee Bearer by John Frederick Lewis (1857) (from History of coffee)
Image 43Centre Place, Melbourne. Australia and New Zealand have competing claims as being the birthplace of the "flat white". (from Coffeehouse)
Image 44Kaffa kalid coffeepot, by French silversmith François-Thomas Germain, 1757, silver with ebony handle, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
Image 45A coffeehouse in Damascus (2003) (from Coffee culture)
Image 46The 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 47Commercial espresso machine (from Coffee preparation)
Image 48Single serve Vietnamese drip filter (from Coffee preparation)
Image 49Coffee house culture between Vienna and Trieste: the coffee, the newspaper, the glass of water and the marble tabletop (from History of coffee)
Image 50A coffeehouse in London, 17th century (from Coffeehouse)
Image 51The Café de Flore on the Rive Gauche 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 52Coffeepot (cafetière "campanienne"), part of a service, 1836, hard-paste porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
Image 53Allow cold brew to steep for 8 to 24 hours (from Coffee preparation)
Image 54Interior of an espresso bar from Baliuag, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
Image 55A Viennese café (from Coffeehouse)
Image 56Caffe Reggio on MacDougal Street in New York City's Greenwich Village which was founded in 1927 (from Coffeehouse)
Image 57A shop specialised in drip coffee in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (from Coffeehouse)
Image 58Various grinders for coffee and spices (from Coffee preparation)
Image 59Les Deux Magots in Paris, once a famous haunt of French intellectuals (2006) (from Coffee culture)
Image 60Coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
Image 61Caffè Florian in Venice (from Coffeehouse)
Image 62Café Kampela, Helsinki (from Coffeehouse)
Image 63A coffeehouse in Cairo, 18th century (from Coffeehouse)
Image 64Café Zimmermann, Leipzig (engraving by Johann Georg Schreiber, 1732) (from History of coffee)
Image 65Caffè San Marco in Trieste, known for its artists, writers and intellectuals (2014) (from Coffee culture)
Image 66The word coffee in various European languages (from Coffeehouse)
Image 67German Empot coffee maker (from Coffee preparation)
Image 68Coffee break in Belgrade (2013) (from Coffee culture)

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Doppio espresso (Italian: [ˈdoppjo]) is a double shot which is extracted using double the amount of ground coffee in a larger-sized portafilter basket. This results in 60 ml (2.1 imp fl oz; 2.0 US fl oz) of drink, double the amount of a single shot espresso. Doppio is Italian multiplier, meaning 'double'. It is commonly called a standard double, due to its standard in judging the espresso quality in barista competitions, where four single espresso are made using two double portafilters.

A single shot of espresso, by contrast, is called a solo ('single') and was developed because it was the maximum amount of ground coffee that could practically be extracted by lever espresso machines. At most cafés outside of Italy, a doppio is the standard shot. Because solos require a smaller portafilter basket, solo shots are often produced by making ("pulling") a doppio in a two-spout portafilter and only serving one of the streams; the other stream may be discarded or used in another drink. (Full article...)

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Rüdesheimer Kaffee is an alcoholic coffee drink from Rüdesheim am Rhein in Germany invented in 1957 by the German television chef, It is a popular drink in coffeehouses.

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... that the short story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was chosen by John Updike as a selection for the Today Show book club on NBC?
... 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 the city council of Bandung in the Dutch East Indies initially met at the site of a former coffee-packing factory?
... that in a copyright infringement case over a coffee-table history of the Grateful Dead, the Second Circuit held that a reuser can still claim fair use despite negotiating with the rights holder?
... that during the October 1980 West Nile campaign, rebels were initially hailed as "liberators", only for them to start looting coffee?
... that Kenyan coffee farmer "Pinkie" Jackson amassed Africa's largest collection of native butterflies?
... that Arab Coffeehouse depicts Henri Matisse's visit to Tangier, where he saw its locals gaze for hours into fishbowls?
... that Justly Watson died suddenly in 1757 from the effects of poison administered in his coffee, it was believed, by a servant?

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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