الخميس، 31 أكتوبر 2013

Interesting Coffee Trivia

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By Debrah Elliot


For coffee lovers, there is nothing better than their cup of fresh morning coffee. This rich drink, whether it is served up black or mixed with cream and sugar, is one of the most popular beverages on Earth. Here are a few fun facts about coffee that might be of interest to you.

Most of us have only seen coffee as a dark bean or ground, but it all begins with a bright red berry. Coffee berries grow on trees in countries that rest between the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer. The red berries contain a green seed, and this is actually what is used to produce the coffee we drink. The seed is roasted in order to achieve that dark color with which we are all familiar. So while we call them "coffee beans," they are really the roasted seeds of the coffee tree.

You might call it coffee or perhaps Joe or even Java or even something silly like mud or a wake-up call. There are dozens of slang terms that are used in place of the word coffee, and Java and Joe are probably the two most common. Java is a coffee-producing island in Indonesia, and coffee from this island was extremely popular worldwide during the 19th and the 18th centuries, so many people started calling coffee "Java," and the nickname stuck. So even if your coffee doesn't come from Java, you might call it by that name. It is sort of like how we tend to call all sparkling wines "Champagne," even though the only official Champagne comes from that particular region of France.

There are songs about love, dancing, political issues, hats and disposable red cups, but there are also plenty of songs about coffee, which probably comes as no surprise to any coffee lover. Why not sing about this most honorable brew? Well, Frank Sinatra sang about coffee and so did Johnny Cash. Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Bob Dylan and many others have, too. Even Johann Sebastian Bach wrote about coffee, suggesting that without his three daily cups of coffee, he would shrivel up just like a chunk of overcooked goat. While most Americans don't eat goat, we can certainly sympathize with Mr. Bach's need for his daily coffee fix.

Many of the world's great authors and statesman have been huge fans of coffee. Thomas Jefferson believed that it was the finest drink in the civilized world, and Theodore Roosevelt drank about one gallon of coffee each day. Voltaire was said to consume a huge amount of coffee each day, as many as 40 or more cups. When he wasn't writing poems about old cats and the end of the world, T.S. Eliot drank coffee. Eliot drank so much coffee that he mused that his life was measured with coffee spoons.

For coffee enthusiasts, finding the freshest and best tasting cup of coffee is always a worthy goal. If you live in Los Angeles, you can find the area's best coffee in Culver City at Island Monarch Coffee. The beans are shipped green straight from South America and Kona in Hawaii and then roasted, and these rich beans are used within five days of roasting to ensure freshness. When you order any coffee drink, the roasted beans are ground right on the spot, and the staff only uses water than has been filtered more than a half-dozen times.




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