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Coffee originated
in Europe where it was known as Arabian wine.
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A French doctor in
the 1680s first recommended café au lait be used for treating
patients. It was after this that people started to add milk to
their coffee.
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The first café
opened in Paris was in 1689. It was opened specifically to serve
coffee.
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In 1760, Venice
boasted over two hundred coffee shops.
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During The
Revolution, the founding fathers of the United States held their
strategy meetings in coffeehouses.
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In the United
States in the year 1790, the first wholesale coffee roasting
company opened.
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The first
newspaper advertisement to advertise coffee was also in 1790.
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France created the
first espresso machine prototype in 1822.
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Most upper middle
class households had a manual coffee grinder by the year 1850.
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The Civil War
furthered the popularity of coffee when soldiers were sent to
war with coffee as one of their rations.
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Coffee became
something that was delivered door-to-door in 1900. It was
delivered by horse-drawn wagons.
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The first espresso
machine to be made for public sale was created in Italy in 1906.
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In Italy, the
terms “coffee” and “espresso” are used to describe the same
thing.
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Just as England
has “tea time,” the Italians have “espresso time.” It is an
event and is given its own time.
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In Italy, the
government controls how much espresso is sold for, as it is
considered an essential in life.
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In total Italy has
over 200,000 coffee houses.
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It is Greek and
Turkish tradition to serve the oldest person at the table their
coffee first.
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Coffee was a
staple in ancient Arab times as well. So much so in fact that
legal grounds for divorce was that the husband refused to make
coffee for his wife.
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In Africa coffee
beans are considered to be candy. They are soaked in water and
spices are added to them.
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Since the 1700s,
ninety percent of people living in the Western world have
switched from drinking tea to drinking coffee.
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Of all the
caffeine consumed in the United States, coffee makes up the
majority with a whopping seventy-five percent.
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The British drink
instant coffee ten times more than they drink freshly brewed
coffee.
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In rankings for
coffee consumption throughout the world, Japan ranks number
three.
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The Japanese will
bathe in coffee grounds that have been fermented with pulp from
a pineapple. This is thought to reduce wrinkles and improve
skin’s appearance.
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Coffee is the most
popular drink throughout the entire world. Four hundred billion
cups are consumed every year.
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The Arabica is the
original coffee plant. It still can be seen growing wild in
Ethiopia.
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It takes
approximately 4,000 Arabica coffee beans to make one pound of
roasted coffee beans. This takes 2,000 Arabica cherries as there
are two beans in every cherry.
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Over 600,000 beans
are used to fill a sack of coffee. These sacks are made from
hemp and weigh approximately 132 pounds when they are full.
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Coffee beans are
green before they are roasted.
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Up until the late
1800s, coffee was roasted by the consumer in their own home.
Generally, popcorn poppers and frying pans were used for this.
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Chocolate was
first added to coffee in the 1600s by the Europeans.
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Meslitta Bentz can
be attributed to helping make the world’s first drip coffee
maker. She did so by making a filter out of one of her son’s
notebook papers.
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People judge
coffee more by its smell than any other sensory sensation.
