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Introduction
Coffee is a drink prepared from roasted coffee beans made from seeds of Coffea plant species. It is darkly colored, bitter, slightly acidic and has a stimulating effect in humans, primarily due to its caffeine content, and is one of the most popular drinks in the world.
From the coffee fruit, the seeds are separated to produce unroasted green coffee. The seeds are then 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 the drinking of coffee 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 much more global commodity, creating different coffee cultures around the world. (Full article...)
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Luckin Coffee Inc. (Chinese: 瑞幸咖啡; pinyin: Ruìxìng Kāfēi; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Suī-hēng Ko-pi) is a Chinese coffee company and coffeehouse chain. It was founded in Beijing in 2017. As of September 2021[update], it managed 5,671 kiosks. The company operates shops, stores, and kiosks that offer coffee, tea, and food. Customers need to download an app to order and pay for drinks online. The coffee chain headquarter is in Xiamen. Luckin Coffee quickly expanded over the years and outnumbered Starbucks in China by 2019.
In April 2020, the company revealed that it had inflated its 2019 sales revenue by up to US$310 million. It resulted in the stock price crashing and several executives being fired. Trading was suspended and the company was delisted from NASDAQ on 29 June 2020. The company filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in the US in February 2021. In December 2021, Luckin Coffee received court approval from a federal judge in Manhattan to restructure $460M worth of debt and to settle a number of class-action lawsuits over the fabricated sales figures. (Full article...)General images -
- 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)
- Trieste from where the cappuccino spread. (from Coffeehouse)
- Home espresso machine with pump (from Coffee preparation)
- A café in a former church, Utrecht (from Coffeehouse)
- Coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
- A coffee shop in Angeles City, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
- Café neon sign in Breda (from Coffeehouse)
- Coffeehouse in London, 17th century (from Coffeehouse)
- Interior of an espresso bar from Baliuag, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
- Café Tortoni is an emblematic café in Buenos Aires. Frequented by Jorge Luis Borges among many other figures of Argentina. (from Coffeehouse)
- Coffee plantation (from History of coffee)
- Various grinders for coffee and spices (from Coffee preparation)
- Caffe Reggio on MacDougal Street in New York City's Greenwich Village which was founded in 1927 (from Coffeehouse)
- Café Kampela, Helsinki (from Coffeehouse)
- Filter coffee being brewed (from Coffee preparation)
- Coffee break in Belgrade (2013) (from Coffee culture)
- Wheel coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
- kaffa 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)
- Café Zimmermann, Leipzig (engraving by Johann Georg Schreiber, 1732) (from History of coffee)
- A shop specialised in drip coffee in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (from Coffeehouse)
- Caffè Florian in Venice (2015) (from Coffee culture)
- Woman drinks coffee in New York (2017) (from Coffee culture)
- Single serve Vietnamese drip filter (from Coffee preparation)
- 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)
- A Viennese café (from Coffeehouse)
- A 1652 handbill advertising coffee for sale in St. Michael's Alley, London. (from History of coffee)
- The word coffee in various European languages. (from Coffeehouse)
- 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)
- Pope Clement VIII: The Pope who popularised coffee in Europe among Christians. (from History of coffee)
- Monsooned Malabar arabica, compared with green Yirgachefe beans from Ethiopia (from History of coffee)
- Commercial espresso machine (from Coffee preparation)
- Coffeepot (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)
- Working on a laptop at a café/coffee house (2017) (from Coffee culture)
- Central European Habsburg coffee house culture: news, coffee, the glass of water and the marble table top (2004) (from Coffee culture)
- 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)
- Rumah Loer, a contemporary-style coffee shop (Indonesian: rumah kopi kekinian) in Palembang, Indonesia (from Coffeehouse)
- Hints on coffee making, by Louise Markscheffel, 1897 (from Coffee preparation)
- Storyteller (meddah) at a coffeehouse in the Ottoman Empire. The first coffeehouses appeared in the Islamic world in the 15th century. (from Coffeehouse)
- Palestinian women grinding coffee, 1905 (from History of coffee)
- "Discussing the War in a Paris Café", The Illustrated London News, 17 September 1870 (from Coffeehouse)
- Coffeehouses often sell pastries or other food items (from Coffeehouse)
- Coffee house culture between Vienna and Trieste: the coffee, thenewspaper, the glass of water and the marble tabletop (from History of coffee)
- Moka pot (from Coffee preparation)
- A Viennese coffeehouse (2004) (from Coffee culture)
- Dutch coffee-roasting machine, c. 1920 (from Coffee preparation)
- Café Mélange, Vienna (from Coffeehouse)
- On-campus coffeehouse at Pensacola Christian College (from Coffeehouse)
- Home espresso machine without pump (only with steam pressure) (from Coffee preparation)
- Syrian Bedouin from a beehive village in Aleppo, Syria, sipping the traditional murra (bitter) coffee, 1930 (from History of coffee)
- Centre Place, Melbourne. Australia is considered the birthplace of the "flat white". (from Coffeehouse)
- A variation on the moka pot with the upper section formed as a coffee fountain (from Coffee preparation)
- Cafés in central Tirana in 2017 (from Coffee culture)
- A coffee cafè at a library in Melbourne (2006) (from Coffee culture)
- Caffè Florian in Venice (from Coffeehouse)
- Family in Söderhamn, Sweden seated for fika around 1916. (from Coffee culture)
- A coffeehouse in Cairo, 18th century (from Coffeehouse)
- Dutch engraving of Mocha in 1692 (from History of coffee)
- An espresso by the glass in Trieste - in the local dialect "Nero in B". (from Coffee culture)
- Caffè San Marco in Trieste, known for its artists, writers and intellectuals (2014) (from Coffee culture)
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Iced coffee is a coffee beverage served cold. It may be prepared either by brewing coffee normally (i.e. carafe, French press, etc.) and then serving it over ice or in cold milk, or by brewing the coffee cold. In hot brewing, sweeteners and flavoring may be added before cooling, as they dissolve faster. Iced coffee can also be sweetened with pre-dissolved sugar in water.
Pre-packaged iced coffee is available as a grocery item in several countries, though without ice. Iced coffee is also regularly available in most coffee shops. Iced coffee is generally brewed at a higher strength than normal coffee, given that it is diluted by the melting ice. (Full article...)Selected image -
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