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Introduction
Coffee is a drink prepared 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.
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 that are 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 used 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 in the form of the modern beverage appears in modern-day Yemen from the mid-15th century in Sufi shrines, where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed in a manner similar to current methods. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands via coastal Somali intermediaries and began cultivation. By the 16th century, the drink had reached the rest of the Middle East and North Africa, later spreading to Europe. In the 20th century, coffee became a global commodity, creating different coffee cultures around the world. (Full article...)
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Hawaii is one of the few U.S. states where coffee production is a significant economic industry – coffee is the second largest crop produced there. The 2019–2020 coffee harvest in Hawaii was valued at $102.9 million. As of the 2019-2020 harvest, coffee production in Hawaii accounted for 6,900 acres of land
The coffee industry in Hawaii is well supported by organizations such as the Hawaii Coffee Association, the Hawaii Agriculture Resource Center and the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa and the state's Department of Agriculture. (Full article...)General images -
- A coffeehouse in Cairo, 18th century (from Coffeehouse)
- Hints on coffee making, by Louise Markscheffel, 1897 (from Coffee preparation)
- The word coffee in various European languages. (from Coffeehouse)
- Allow cold brew to steep for 8 to 24 hours (from Coffee preparation)
- Commercial espresso machine (from Coffee preparation)
- Interior of an espresso bar from Baliuag, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
- Coffeepot (cafetière "campanienne"), part of a service, 1836, hard-paste porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
- A Viennese coffeehouse (2004) (from Coffee culture)
- Syrian Bedouin from a beehive village in Aleppo, Syria, sipping the traditional murra (bitter) coffee, 1930 (from History of coffee)
- Café Zimmermann, Leipzig (engraving by Johann Georg Schreiber, 1732) (from History of coffee)
- Storyteller (meddah) at a coffeehouse in the Ottoman Empire. The first coffeehouses appeared in the Islamic world in the 15th century. (from Coffeehouse)
- A 1652 handbill advertising coffee for sale in St. Michael's Alley, London (from History of coffee)
- Coffee break in Belgrade (2013) (from Coffee culture)
- "Discussing the War in a Paris Café", The Illustrated London News, 17 September 1870 (from Coffeehouse)
- An espresso by the glass in Trieste - in the local dialect "Nero in B" (from Coffee culture)
- A coffee shop at a library in Melbourne (2006) (from Coffee culture)
- Home espresso machine with pump (from Coffee preparation)
- The Coffee Bearer by John Frederick Lewis (1857) (from History of coffee)
- Café Mélange, Vienna (from Coffeehouse)
- Monsooned Malabar arabica, compared with green Yirgachefe beans from Ethiopia (from History of coffee)
- Caffe Reggio on MacDougal Street in New York City's Greenwich Village which was founded in 1927 (from Coffeehouse)
- The 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)
- Caffè Florian in Venice (from Coffeehouse)
- Pope Clement VIII: The Pope who popularised coffee in Europe among Christians (from History of coffee)
- A variation on the moka pot with the upper section formed as a coffee fountain (from Coffee preparation)
- Palestinian women grinding coffee, 1905 (from History of coffee)
- Kaffa kalid coffeepot, by French silversmith François-Thomas Germain, 1757, silver with ebony handle, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
- Caffè Florian in Venice (2015) (from Coffee culture)
- A coffee shop in Angeles City, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
- Rumah Loer, a contemporary-style coffee shop (Indonesian: rumah kopi kekinian) in Palembang, Indonesia (from Coffeehouse)
- Various grinders for coffee and spices (from Coffee preparation)
- The 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)
- Café neon sign in Breda (from Coffeehouse)
- Café Tortoni is an emblematic café in Buenos Aires. Frequented by Jorge Luis Borges among many other figures of Argentina. (from Coffeehouse)
- Single serve Vietnamese drip filter (from Coffee preparation)
- On-campus coffeehouse at Pensacola Christian College (from Coffeehouse)
- Coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
- Cafés in central Tirana (2017) (from Coffee culture)
- A Viennese café (from Coffeehouse)
- 18th 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)
- Dutch coffee-roasting machine, c. 1920 (from Coffee preparation)
- Wheel coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
- Dutch engraving of Mocha in 1692 (from History of coffee)
- Centre Place, Melbourne. Australia is considered the birthplace of the "flat white". (from Coffeehouse)
- A shop specialised in drip coffee in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (from Coffeehouse)
- In 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)
- Trieste from where the cappuccino spread. (from Coffeehouse)
- Filter coffee being brewed (from Coffee preparation)
- Coffeehouses often sell pastries or other food items (from Coffeehouse)
- Coffee plantation (from History of coffee)
- Home espresso machine without pump (only with steam pressure) (from Coffee preparation)
- Moka pot (from Coffee preparation)
- Family in Söderhamn, Sweden, seated for fika (c. 1916) (from Coffee culture)
- Coffeehouse in London, 17th century (from Coffeehouse)
- Café Kampela, Helsinki (from Coffeehouse)
- Caffè San Marco in Trieste, known for its artists, writers and intellectuals (2014) (from Coffee culture)
- A café in a former church, Utrecht (from Coffeehouse)
- Central European Habsburg coffee house culture: news, coffee, the glass of water and the marble table top (2004) (from Coffee culture)
- Coffee house culture between Vienna and Trieste: the coffee, the newspaper, the glass of water and the marble tabletop (from History of coffee)
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Café Cubano (also known as Cuban espresso, Colada, Cuban coffee, cafecito, Cuban pull, and Cuban shot) is a type of espresso that originated in Cuba. Specifically, it refers to an espresso shot which is sweetened (traditionally with natural brown sugar which has been whipped with the first and strongest drops of espresso). However, the name is sometimes used to refer to coffee based drinks that include Cuban espresso as the main ingredient, such as café con leche.
Drinking café cubano remains a prominent social and cultural activity in Cuba and in Cuban-American communities, particularly in Miami, Tampa and the Florida Keys. (Full article...)Selected image -
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