Posts Tagged ‘coffee bean’
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 [...]
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 [...]
The first gained popularity aromatized “latte” (coffee with milk).
The first idea of aromatized coffee appeared in the East. The Arabs, who were living on the territory of modern Yemen, added there different spices. They increased the taste and the flavor of the beverage. The supplements were cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, ginger, vanillin, etc.
Different supplements impart certain [...]
The first coffee houses were opened in Oxford, England, in 1650. One year later – in London. By 1700 there were already about 2000 coffee houses in the capital of Great Britain.
London coffee-houses of XVII century have become famous as «Penny Universities», because with a cup of coffee it was possible to speak to painters, [...]
On the word market there is a special classification of all sorts of coffee, which divided them into three big categories. The key factor is a quality of beans.
The first category is Mild. It consists of the best sorts of Arabica coffee – from rare to widely-used. In order to stress their high quality [...]
Coffee in Brazil was grown in early 1700. In 1727 Brazilians have taken part in settlement of territorial disputes between French and Netherlands Guiana. It gave a chance to get at least some carefully protected coffee saplings.
All these stories are very different but at the same time have one common idea: an [...]
The plant, which giving coffee – if only this name does not deriver from the name of the drink, – come into the world as tiny sprout, which peeped out from furcated bean. This bean is planted into the sand and not very deep. As soon as sprout puts down roots, it so to speak [...]
In the world market several thousands of varieties of unblended coffee go on sale. Otherwise it is called varietal.
In a number of cases unblended coffee has the name of a country in which it is made, for example, Colombian coffee, etc.
Most varieties of unblended coffee have narrower trade name. They can get it [...]
