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Introduction

A cup of black coffee

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 is the most popular hot drink in the world.

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 lessen 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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Coffea arabica flowers

Coffea arabica (/əˈræbɪkə/), also known as the Arabic coffee, is a species of flowering plant in the coffee and madder family Rubiaceae. It is believed to be the first species of coffee to have been cultivated and is currently the dominant cultivar, representing about 60% of global production. Coffee produced from the (less acidic, more bitter, and more highly caffeinated) robusta bean (C. canephora) makes up most of the remaining coffee production. Arabica coffee originates from and was first cultivated in Yemen, and documented by the 12th century. Coffea arabica is called ‏بُنّ‎ (būnn) in Arabic, borrowed from the Amharic "Buna". (Full article...)

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Image 1Home espresso machine with pump (from Coffee preparation)
Image 2Pope Clement VIII: The Pope who popularised coffee in Europe among Christians. (from History of coffee)
Image 3Roadside cafe on the summer terrace. Buryatia, Russia (from Coffeehouse)
Image 4An espresso by the glass in Trieste - in the local dialect "Nero in B" (from Coffee culture)
Image 5Les Deux Magots in Paris, once a famous haunt of French intellectuals (2006) (from Coffee culture)
Image 6In 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 7Commercial espresso machine (from Coffee preparation)
Image 8Caffè Florian in Venice (2015) (from Coffee culture)
Image 9Storyteller (meddah) at a coffeehouse in the Ottoman Empire. The first coffeehouses appeared in the Islamic world in the 15th century. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 10Wheel coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
Image 11Dutch coffee-roasting machine, c. 1920 (from Coffee preparation)
Image 12A coffeehouse in Damascus (2003) (from Coffee culture)
Image 13A Viennese café (from Coffeehouse)
Image 14Monsooned Malabar arabica, compared with green Yirgachefe beans from Ethiopia (from History of coffee)
Image 15Syrian Bedouin from a beehive village in Aleppo, Syria, sipping the traditional murra (bitter) coffee, 1930 (from History of coffee)
Image 16Moka pot (from Coffee preparation)
Image 17Various grinders for coffee and spices (from Coffee preparation)
Image 18Single serve Vietnamese drip filter (from Coffee preparation)
Image 19Café Tortoni is an emblematic café in Buenos Aires. Frequented by Jorge Luis Borges among many other figures of Argentina. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 20Hints on coffee making, by Louise Markscheffel, 1897 (from Coffee preparation)
Image 21The 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 22kaffa kalid coffeepot, by François-Thomas Germain, 1757, silver with ebony handle, height: 29.5 cm, width with handle: 30.5 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) (from History of coffee)
Image 23Coffee house culture between Vienna and Trieste: the coffee, thenewspaper, the glass of water and the marble tabletop (from History of coffee)
Image 24Family in Söderhamn, Sweden, seated for fika (c. 1916) (from Coffee culture)
Image 25Palestinian women grinding coffee, 1905 (from History of coffee)
Image 26Ottoman miniature of a meddah performing at a coffeehouse (from Coffeehouse)
Image 27Café Zimmermann, Leipzig (engraving by Johann Georg Schreiber, 1732) (from History of coffee)
Image 28Home espresso machine without pump (only with steam pressure) (from Coffee preparation)
Image 29Coffeehouse in London, 17th century (from Coffeehouse)
Image 30A shop specialised in drip coffee in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (from Coffeehouse)
Image 31The Coffee Bearer by John Frederick Lewis (1857).
(Ottoman quarters in Cairo, Egypt)
Image 32Centre Place, Melbourne. Australia is considered the birthplace of the "flat white". (from Coffeehouse)
Image 33A Viennese coffeehouse (2004) (from Coffee culture)
Image 34Trieste from where the cappuccino spread. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 35A 1652 handbill advertising coffee for sale in St. Michael's Alley, London. (from History of coffee)
Image 36Café Kampela, Helsinki (from Coffeehouse)
Image 37A coffee bearer, from the Ottoman quarters in Cairo (1857) (from Coffee culture)
Image 38Coffee plantation (from History of coffee)
Image 39A coffee shop in Angeles City, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
Image 40Caffè Florian in Venice (from Coffeehouse)
Image 41Caffè San Marco in Trieste, known for its artists, writers and intellectuals (2014) (from Coffee culture)
Image 42A cup of coffee with cheesecake at a cafe in Helsinki, Finland (from Coffee culture)
Image 43Filter coffee being brewed (from Coffee preparation)
Image 44The word coffee in various European languages. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 45A variation on the moka pot with the upper section formed as a coffee fountain (from Coffee preparation)
Image 46A café in a former church, Utrecht (from Coffeehouse)
Image 47"Discussing the War in a Paris Café", The Illustrated London News, 17 September 1870 (from Coffeehouse)
Image 48Coffee break in Belgrade (2013) (from Coffee culture)
Image 49Café Mélange, Vienna (from Coffeehouse)
Image 50A coffeehouse in Cairo, 18th century (from Coffeehouse)
Image 51Dutch engraving of Mocha in 1692 (from History of coffee)
Image 52Rumah Loer, a contemporary-style coffee shop (Indonesian: rumah kopi kekinian) in Palembang, Indonesia (from Coffeehouse)
Image 5318th 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 54Cafés in central Tirana (2017) (from Coffee culture)
Image 55Interior of an espresso bar from Baliuag, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
Image 56Caffe Reggio on MacDougal Street in New York City's Greenwich Village which was founded in 1927 (from Coffeehouse)
Image 57Café neon sign in Breda (from Coffeehouse)
Image 58A coffee shop at a library in Melbourne (2006) (from Coffee culture)
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)
Image 60On-campus coffeehouse at Pensacola Christian College (from Coffeehouse)
Image 61Coffeepot (cafetière "campanienne"), part of a service, 1836, hard-paste porcelain, overall: 19.2 x 17.6 x 10.8 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
Image 62Central European Habsburg coffee house culture: news, coffee, the glass of water and the marble table top (2004) (from Coffee culture)
Image 63Coffeehouses often sell pastries or other food items (from Coffeehouse)
Image 64Coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)

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Caffè lungo

Lungo (Italian for "long") is a coffee beverage made by using an espresso machine to make an Italian-style coffee – short black (a single espresso shot) with more water (generally twice as much), resulting in a larger coffee, a lungo.

A normal serving of espresso takes from 18 to 30 seconds to pull, and fills 25 to 60 millilitres, while a lungo may take up to a minute to pull, and might fill 130 to 170 millilitres. Extraction time of the dose is determined by the variety of coffee beans (usually a blend of Arabica and Robusta), their grind and the pressure of the machine. It is usually brewed using an espresso machine but with two or three times the amount of water to the same weight of coffee to make a much longer drink. (Full article...)

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List of coffee beverages#Café bombón

Café Bombon is an espresso drink served with sweetened condensed milk in a 1:1 ratio, in a glass. They are popular in Valencia, Spain.

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v t e Coffee
Topics	Economics Fair trade History International Coffee Day Single-origin coffee Third wave of coffee
Production	Coffee production List of countries by coffee production Coffee roasting Coffee wastewater Decaffeination Home roasting
Species and varieties	Arabica Benguet Blue Mountain Bonifieur Bourbon Geisha Kona Maracaturra Maragogipe Molokai S795 Sagada Charrieriana Liberica Barako Racemosa Robusta Sulu
Components	Cafestol Caffeic acid Caffeine Coffee bean Furan-2-ylmethanethiol Kahweol
Preparation	AeroPress Arabic coffee Jebena Brewed coffee Chemex Cezve Chorreador Coffeemaker Cold brew nitro Espresso doppio lungo ristretto Espresso machine French press Instant coffee Coffee syrup Knockbox Moka pot Neapolitan flip coffee pot Percolator Turkish coffee Vacuum maker Single-serve coffee container
Coffee drinks	Affogato Americano Beaten coffee Bica Bicerin Black Russian Cà phê sữa đá Café au lait Café com cheirinho Café con leche Café de olla Café Touba Café corretto Café crema Caffè macchiato Café mocha Cappuccino Carajillo Coffee cabinet Coffee milk Cortado Café Cubano Dalgona coffee Egg coffee Espresso Flat white Frappé coffee Frappuccino Galão Garoto Gassosa al caffè Iced coffee Indian filter coffee Ipoh white coffee Irish coffee Karsk Kopi Kopi luwak Kopi tubruk Kurdish coffee Latte macchiato Latte Liqueur coffee Long black Lungo Marocchino Mazagran Moretta Oliang Raf coffee Red eye Ristretto Rüdesheimer Kaffee Tenom coffee Turkish coffee White coffee White Russian Wiener Melange Yuenyeung
Organization lists	Bakery cafés Coffee companies Coffeehouses
Lifestyle	Barista Bikini barista Caffè sospeso Coffee break Coffee ceremony CoffeeCon Coffee culture Coffee cupping Coffee palace Coffeehouse Historical coffeehouses Kopi tiam Latte art Viennese coffee house
Substitutes	Barley coffee Barley tea Barleycup Caro Chicory Dandelion coffee Inka Maya nut Postum Qishr Roasted grain drink
Serving vessels	Coffee cup sleeve Cezve Demitasse spoon Tasse à café Zarf
Competitions	United States Barista Championship World Barista Championship World Brewers Cup
Misc.	Coffee and doughnuts Coffee bag Coffee service Coffee leaf rust Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment Canned coffee Coffee vending machine Used coffee grounds Sustainable coffee
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v t e Coffee production by region
Top 20 producers (2014)	Brazil Colombia Costa Rica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Ethiopia Guatemala Honduras India Indonesia Java Ivory Coast Mexico Nicaragua Papua New Guinea Peru Tanzania Thailand Uganda Vietnam
Other cultivators	Angola Bolivia China Cameroon Cuba Democratic Republic of the Congo East Timor Guadeloupe Guam Haiti Jamaica Kenya Laos Martinique Panama Paraguay Philippines Puerto Rico Sri Lanka United States (Hawaii) Venezuela
Lists	List of countries by coffee production List of countries by coffee exports

v t e Types of coffeehouses
Café Book café (Manga cafe Manhwabang) Cafe church Café Philosophique Cat café Cosplay restaurant (Maid café Butler café) Internet café (PC bang) Dabang (Korea) Kafana Kissaten Konditorei Kopi tiam Mamak stall Meikyoku kissa No-pan kissa Ottoman coffeehouse Parisian café Penny University Socrates Cafe Sidewalk cafe Utagoe coffeehouse Viennese coffee house

v t e Coffee in Italy
Roasters	illy Lavazza Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group Caffè Pascucci Caffè del Doge Guglielmo Caffè
Historical Coffeehouses	Antico Caffè Greco Caffè Bardi Caffè-Pasticceria Cova Caffè Florian Caffè Giubbe Rosse Caffè Lavena Caffè Michelangiolo Caffè Quadri Caffè San Marco Caffè Fiorio Caffè Gambrinus Gran Caffè Doney Palazzina Majani, Bologna Pedrocchi Café Antico Caffè Spinnato
People	Alfonso Bialetti Francesco Illy Luigi Lavazza Angelo Moriondo
Technology	Bialetti Caffitaly Cimbali FrancisFrancis De'Longhi Elektra Faema Gaggia La Marzocco Lelit Rancilio Saeco Smeg
Drinks	Affogato Barbajada Bicerin Bombardino Caffè corretto Caffè crema Caffè macchiato Espressino Espresso Lungo Ristretto Doppio Latte macchiato Marocchino Mocaccino Shakerato Gassosa al caffè Moretta
Other	Barista Caffè sospeso Easy Serving Espresso Pod Espresso machine IperEspresso ISSpresso Lavazza A Modo Mio Moka pot Neapolitan flip coffee pot

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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