Coffee
Words cannot espresso how much coffee beans to me.
Coffee/koffie/café/kahveh/kofi/kaffi, however you know it, is a delicious darkly coloured, bitter and slightly acidic brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species.
Legend has it that the goatherder Kaldi first discovered the potential
of these beloved beans in the ancient coffee forests on the Ethiopian
plateau.
The story goes that that Kaldi discovered coffee after he noticed that
after eating the berries from a certain tree, his goats became so
energetic that they did not want to sleep at night.
Kaldi reported
his findings to the abbot of the local monastery, who made a drink with
the berries and found that it kept him alert through the long hours of
evening prayer. The abbot shared his discovery with the other monks at
the monastery, and knowledge of the energizing berries began to
spread.
As word moved east and coffee reached the Arabian peninsula, it began a
journey which would bring these beans across the globe.
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world and can be prepared and presented in a variety of ways:
- espresso
- french press
- caffè latte
- caffé mocha
- café au lait
- cappuccino
- cold brew
- frappé
- already-brewed coffee in a can
...the list goes on.
Discover more about the world of coffee here.
Coffee is truly mug-nificent!
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