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Introduction
Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It has the highest sales in the world market for hot drinks.
The seeds of the Coffea plant's fruits are separated to produce unroasted green coffee beans. The beans are roasted and then ground into fine particles typically steeped in hot water before being filtered out, producing a cup of coffee. It is usually served hot, although chilled or iced coffee is common. Coffee can be prepared and presented in a variety of ways (e.g., espresso, French press, caffè latte, or already-brewed canned coffee). Sugar, sugar substitutes, milk, and cream are often added to mask the bitter taste or enhance the flavor.
Though coffee is now a global commodity, it has a long history tied closely to food traditions around the Red Sea. The earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking as the modern beverage appears in modern-day Yemen in southern Arabia in the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines, where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed in a manner similar to how it is now prepared for drinking. The coffee beans were procured by the Yemenis from the Ethiopian Highlands via coastal Somali intermediaries, and cultivated in Yemen. By the 16th century, the drink had reached the rest of the Middle East and North Africa, later spreading to Europe. (Full article...)
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CoffeeFest (Literary Serbian: Кофифест, Kofifest) is a regional, annual coffee festival that is held every last weekend in September on the Ušće street in Belgrade, Serbia, across the Ušće Shopping Center. The Belgrade coffee, tea and hot beverage festival is supported by the Serbian Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications, City of Belgrade Belgrade Tourism Organization, Serbian Tourism Organization, and the Serbian Chamber of Commerce. The festival organizer is a PCO company Oivivio LLC headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.
Exhibit area consists of over 2,000 m2 is set up on the closed-for-traffic street passing by the shopping mall. Among the exhibitors there was importers, distributors and roasters of domestic, traditional coffee, espresso, single origin coffees, espresso machines, capsules, pods, instant coffees, water, teas, milk for coffee, RTD coffee and more. The first CoffeeFest held on September 26–27, 2014 hosted 37 brands on 29 exhibition booths and had participants from Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Switzerland and United States and attracted 18,210 visitors from Serbia and neighboring countries.
Exhibitors at first CoffeeFest were manufacturers, distributors and companies whose business include:
- Coffee, tea, tea biscuits, chocolate, milk, creamers, water, syrup, sugar, cocoa and other supplements for coffee and tea
- Professional and home coffee-making machines and vending, water filters and cleaning agents
- Organizations, institutions and associations dealing with catering, food, nutrition and medicine, as well as research, training, consultancy and certification of hot drinks and accompanying products (Full article...)
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A variation on the moka pot with the upper section formed as a coffee fountain (from Coffee preparation) -
Café Zimmermann, Leipzig (engraving by Johann Georg Schreiber, 1732) (from History of coffee) -
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Dutch engraving of Mocha in 1692 (from History of coffee) -
Centre Place, Melbourne. Australia and New Zealand have competing claims as being the birthplace of the "flat white". (from Coffeehouse) -
Coffeepot (cafetière "campanienne"), part of a service, 1836, hard-paste porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee) -
The word coffee in various European languages (from Coffeehouse) -
Trieste from where the cappuccino spread (from Coffeehouse) -
The Coffee Bearer by John Frederick Lewis (1857) (from History of coffee) -
Café Mélange, Vienna (from Coffeehouse) -
Commercial espresso machine (from Coffee preparation) -
Moka pot (from Coffee preparation) -
Kaffa kalid coffeepot, by French silversmith François-Thomas Germain, 1757, silver with ebony handle, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee) -
A coffeehouse in Cairo, 18th century (from Coffeehouse) -
Café Kampela, Helsinki (from Coffeehouse) -
Central European Habsburg coffee house culture: news, coffee, the glass of water and the marble table top (2004) (from Coffee culture) -
A coffeehouse in London, 17th century (from Coffeehouse) -
A coffee shop in Bacoor, Philippines (from Coffeehouse) -
Cafés in central Tirana (2017) (from Coffee culture) -
Allow cold brew to steep for 8 to 24 hours (from Coffee preparation) -
Coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation) -
Statue of Fernando Pessoa by Lagoa Henriques, next to the A Brasileira café, in Chiado, Lisbon. (from Coffeehouse) -
Filter coffee being brewed (from Coffee preparation) -
Wheel coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation) -
Single serve Vietnamese drip filter (from Coffee preparation) -
Coffee house culture between Vienna and Trieste: the coffee, the newspaper, the glass of water and the marble tabletop (from History of coffee)
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A Viennese coffeehouse (2004) (from Coffee culture) -
A café in a former church, Utrecht (from Coffeehouse) -
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Coffee break in Belgrade (2013) (from Coffee culture) -
Drip coffee maker (from Coffee preparation) -
Caffe Reggio on MacDougal Street in New York City's Greenwich Village which was founded in 1927 (from Coffeehouse) -
Interior of an espresso bar from Baliuag, Philippines (from Coffeehouse) -
Coffee plantation (from History of coffee) -
Coffeehouses often sell pastries or other food items. (from Coffeehouse) -
An espresso by the glass in Trieste - in the local dialect "Nero in B" (from Coffee culture) -
The Café de Flore in Paris is one of the oldest coffeehouses in the city. It is celebrated for its famous clientele, which included high-profile writers and philosophers. (from Coffeehouse) -
The Federal Coffee Palace, built on Collins Street, Melbourne, in 1888, was the largest and grandest Coffee Palace ever built. It was demolished in 1973. (from Coffeehouse) -
In a pour-over, the water passes through the coffee grounds, gaining soluble compounds to form coffee. Insoluble compounds remain within the coffee filter. (from Coffee preparation) -
Home espresso machine with pump (from Coffee preparation) -
Pope Clement VIII: The Pope who popularised coffee in Europe among Christians (from History of coffee) -
"Discussing the War in a Paris Café", The Illustrated London News, 17 September 1870 (from Coffeehouse) -
A 1652 handbill advertising coffee for sale in St. Michael's Alley, London (from History of coffee) -
The Grey Owl Coffee shop in Norman, Oklahoma (from Coffeehouse) -
A shop specialised in drip coffee in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (from Coffeehouse) -
Syrian Bedouin from a beehive village in Aleppo, Syria, sipping the traditional murra (bitter) coffee, 1930 (from History of coffee) -
18th century French plan of Mocha, Yemen. The Somali, Jewish and European quarters are located outside the citadel. The Dutch, English, Turkish and French trading posts are inside the city walls. (from History of coffee) -
Caffè Florian in Venice (2015) (from Coffee culture) -
Roadside café on the summer terrace. Buryatia, Russia (from Coffeehouse) -
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Rumah Loer, a contemporary-style coffee shop (Indonesian: rumah kopi kekinian) in Palembang, Indonesia (from Coffeehouse) -
A coffee shop at a library in Melbourne (2006) (from Coffee culture) -
Home espresso machine without pump (only with steam pressure) (from Coffee preparation) -
Monsooned Malabar arabica, compared with green Yirgachefe beans from Ethiopia (from History of coffee) -
A Viennese café (from Coffeehouse) -
Caffè Florian in Venice (from Coffeehouse)
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Palestinian women grinding coffee, 1905 (from History of coffee) -
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Café Tortoni is an emblematic café in Buenos Aires. Frequented by Jorge Luis Borges among many other figures of Argentina. (from Coffeehouse) -
Inside of a kopitiam, Malaysia (from Coffeehouse) -
Various grinders for coffee and spices (from Coffee preparation) -
Caffè San Marco in Trieste, known for its artists, writers and intellectuals (2014) (from Coffee culture) -
Dutch coffee-roasting machine, c. 1920 (from Coffee preparation) -
Family in Söderhamn, Sweden, seated for fika (c. 1916) (from Coffee culture) -
Café neon sign in Breda (from Coffeehouse)
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Café Touba is a coffee beverage that is a popular traditional drink from Senegal that is (more recently) also consumed in Guinea-Bissau, and is named for the city of Touba, Senegal.
Café Touba is a coffee drink that is flavored with grains of Selim or Guinea pepper (the dried fruit of the shrub Xylopia aethiopica) (locally known as djar, in the Wolof language) and sometimes cloves. The addition of djar, that is cultivated in Touba, is the important factor differentiating café Touba from plain coffee. The spices are mixed and roasted with coffee beans, then ground into a powder. The drink is prepared using a filter, in a manner similar to that used to prepare drip coffee. (Full article...)Selected image -
Did you know (auto-generated)
- ... that Bob Dylan poked Emmylou Harris when he wanted her to start singing during the recording of "One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)"?
- ... that during the October 1980 West Nile campaign, rebels were initially hailed as "liberators", only for them to start looting coffee?
- ... that actor Tatsunari Kimura ate pancakes and drank coffee while talking for eight hours during the filming of the television drama Old-Fashioned Cupcake?
- ... that the short story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was chosen by John Updike as a selection for the Today Show book club on NBC?
- ... that Arab Coffeehouse depicts Henri Matisse's visit to Tangier, where he saw its locals gaze for hours into fishbowls?
- ... that Justly Watson died suddenly in 1757 from the effects of poison administered in his coffee, it was believed, by a servant?
- ... that the Chronicle of the 20th Century was so heavy that it was said to be "the first coffee table book seriously to threaten the well-being of coffee-tables"?
- ... that Steem peanut butter contained as much caffeine per serving as two cups of coffee?
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- World Coffee Research – a 501 (c)(5) nonprofit program of the international coffee industry. (Wikipedia article: World Coffee Research)
- Coffee Research Foundation – based in Kenya, and founded in 1908
- Central Coffee Research Institute – based in Chickmagalur District, India, and founded in 1915
