The objective of this website is to provide a
comprehensive guide about how to make good coffee and
also how to make coffee your favorite beverage. There
are lots of tips and resources on how to make best
coffee, coffee brewing techniques,
coffee roasting, coffee blending, coffee grinding, and coffee
recipes. Other interesting topics include information about the
coffee styles,
coffee flavors,
coffee planting,
coffees of the world
and many others.
The good thing about how to make coffee is that, like the drink
itself, it is seldom boring. There are plenty of anecdotes about
goatherds following their frisky flocks
to the previously unnoticed
bright red berries, about magical cures for all sorts of illness;
about official bans, edicts, blessings, suppressions and petitions;
about spies, intrigues, smuggling, life-threatening sacrifices,
revolutions and, of course, illicit passion. Further, it would seem
that every witty man who ever loved coffee managed to make at least
one observation to ensure his lasting frame among the coffee
cognoscenti of the world.
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Interesting Story:
Beethoven's Forte,
the
famous German composer insisted
that every cup
of coffee he
drank
be
composed of 60 beans. |
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Coffee-drinking spread in the last half of the fifteenth century;
it reached both Mecca and Cairo by 1511, and arrived in Istanbul via
Syria by the middle of the century. Curiously, it seems to have been
some time before anyone would actually admit to liking the coffee drink;
the emphasis was on its medical and physical effects, for which it
was either praised or condemned, rather than on its taste.
The Frenchman Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu transported
the first coffee plant to the New World in 1715 and established a
plantation on the island of Martinique. Several years later, when an
earthquake destroyed the cocoa plantations of Santo Domingo, de
Clieu was able to provide seeds for new coffee plants, and coffee's
geographic circle widened. Gradually, plants were transported from
island to island, to mainland, then from one mainland colony to
another, not only in the New World, but in East as well. The Spanish
planted coffee from Java in
Philippines;
Brazilian
seeds reached
Hawaii
in 1825, and the French, who deserve so much credit for the
spread of coffee-growing throughout the world, introduced coffee to
their Indochinese colonies in 1887. In the last quarter of 1800s,
the British cultivated coffee in their African plantations, starting
in central Africa and working eastwards, until the little red
berries had come full circle from where they were first discovered
centuries before.
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