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

Archive for July, 2009

» Italian Coffee

Ingredients

100 ml of milk
7g of coffee

Preparation
Rinse metallic coffee pot with a hot water. Put coffee with hot milk and bring to a boil. Take away from the fire and let brew.

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» The coffee history in Ethiopia

The sort of coffee-tree Coffea arabica came from Ethiopia (Abyssinia), namely from the south-west part of Ethiopian Highlands, which is called Kafa. People used leaves and fruit of coffee-tree since ancient times, long before the Semite tribe on the Arabian Peninsula had known about this plant.
The discoverers of coffee weren’t the Arabs, but Ethiopians – [...]

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» Coffee contents

Raw coffee beans contain more than 2000 different substances like proteins, carbohydrates, fats and mineral salt. By roasting its chemistry is considerably changed.
The nutrition value of real coffee (100 g. of drink without sugar) is: proteins – 0,2 g., fats – 0,6 g., carbohydrates – 0,1 g., calcium – to 9 mg., phosphorus – [...]

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» Coffee with cognac and liqueur

Ingredients

9g of coffee
20g of sugar
20 ml of brandy
ice
30 ml of liqueur
100 ml of water

Preparation
Make coffee with sugar, then cool it and put to the fridge for half an hour. Put into the glass some pieces of ice, brandy and liqueur and bring it to the same volume with chilled sweet coffee. Serve with a drinking [...]

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» Innovation: tights with caffeine

Unusual tights were created recently – imbued with coffee. First, they decrease hips circumference, secondly, recover from cellulitis and thirdly, improve skin elasticity and its smoothness.
Now some words about science. The fiber is impregnated with caffeine microcapsules. The body temperature makes caffeine affect the skin. It has been proved that caffeine’s active components stimulate [...]

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