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“Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love” Turkish Proverb

Archive for June, 2009

» Coffee and sport

According to numerous researches, caffeine promotes fat burning during playing sport and provides organism with energy which is required for fatigability’s decrease. There is an other opinion which asserts that caffeine promotes increase in muscles exertion (causes its muscle contraction).
Taking into account the beneficial effect from caffeine usage, official sports organizations, as International Olympic [...]

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» Coffee with vermouth

Ingredients
For two portions:

120 ml of red vermouth
60 ml of cold and very strong coffee
coffee beans for decoration
10 ml of granulated sugar
30 ml of ice
250 ml of milk

Preparation
Mix all ingredients in shaker, stirring it energetically and for a long time. As soon as cocktail be ready, pour out it straight [...]

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» Ground coffee

One and a half milliards cups of coffee are drunk in the world every day. Bitter, foamy, coarse and mild, Arabica or Robusta. Real, ground.
Sowed by the angel, made by the herder
Coffee is one of the best beverages which are known for our civilization. Perhaps, the flourishing civilization itself is in many respects owed to [...]

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» Coffee “Enjoyment”

Ingredients
Two portions:

2 tablespoons of ground coffee
6 sugared cherries
2 pieces of ice cubes
2 wooden skewers
4g of cardamom seeds
6 pieces of pineapple
300 ml of water

Preparation
Boil cardamom seeds during 5 minutes in the water which is necessary for coffee making.
Cool aromatic mixture and then strain it. Make coffee in the water which absorb [...]

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» New Orleans coffee

Ingredients
Four portions:

3 tablespoons of ground coffee
1 tablespoon of ground chicory
100 ml of milk

Preparation
Mix ground coffee with ground chicory. Make strong coffee.
While coffee is preparing, warm up milk and coffee cups.
Put coffee in the cups and add hot milk.

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» Coffee like a medicine

A French novelist Honoré de Balzac. The portrait of L. Boulanger.

Coffee and creation
With admiration wrote about coffee Balzac in «Treatise about modern analeptics»:
«As soon as coffee gets stomach, at once appears excitement. Thoughts start moving like Great Army’s battalions on the battlefield. Instantly in a memory arise events quasi adapt with a wind.»
Coffee like a [...]

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