Coffee is consumed for its unique aromatic taste and stimulating effects. The pleasant taste originates from the roasting process, where the bitter tasting and the characteristics volatile aroma components are formed. It is probably common knowledge that coffee was discovered in Ethiopia.
The red cherries which the sheep ate and become very active were taken home and tasted and what was known as the devils fruit become coffee as the world knows it today.
Another tale which has been around for some time involves an Arabian who use coffee beans to survive an exile and was discovered near the town of Mocha and thus we also refer to coffee as Mocha.
By early twentieth century, coffee had become a major consumer product, advertised widely throughout the United States. By the 1950s, coffee was the American middle class beverage of choice.
Coffee has an important place in the rational dietary of all the civilized peoples of earth. It has been acclaimed ‘the most grateful lubricant known to the human machine’ and ‘the most delightful toil with brain or brawn’.
Beginning as a medicinal drinks for the elite, coffee became the favored modern stimulant of the blue-collar worker during his break, the gossip starter in middle class kitchens, the romantic binder for wooing couples, and the sole, bitter companion of the lost soul.
Coffee provides a livelihood for some 125 million human beings. It is an incredibly labor intensive crops.
Good coffee, carefully roasted and properly brewed, produces a natural beverage that, for tonic effect, can be surpassed by its rival, tea an cocoa. It is unique drink and could be regarded as healthy beverage choice. If taken as black coffee, it is virtually free if saturated fatty acid, sodium and sugar.
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