Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
Beethoven who was a coffee lover, was so particular about his coffee that he always counted 60 beans each cup when he prepared his brew.
Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.
Balzac is said to have drank more than fifty cups of coffee a day. Maybe that is why Baudelaire referred to him as the author of “energy and will.”
Coffee, as a world commodity, is second only to oil.
The average cup of coffee contains more than 1000 different chemical components, none of which is tasted in isolation but only as part of the overall flavor.
Coffee trees are evergreen and grow to heights above 15 feet but are normally pruned to around 8 feet in order to facilitate harvesting.
By 1850, the manual coffee grinder found its way to most upper middle class kitchens of the U.S.
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Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.
~ Isak Dinesen, in “The Supper at Elsinore” Seven Gothic Tales
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
~ T.S. Eliot
Life is hard enough with coffee. What would life be without coffee?
~ Leonard Sweet, in The Gospel According to Starbucks
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
~ Turkish proverb
A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.
~ Turkish proverb
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