Fact about coffee
There are millions of people who drink coffee in coffee bars or restaurants all over the world. But they don’t know fact about coffee. While drinking coffee they talk about the day’s news or they just relax. Coffee bars are a good place to meet people for a chat, and drinking coffee is a simple way to relax.
People also drink coffee so that they can keep awake. Students drink it late at night because they want to study. Lorry drivers drink it because they want to keep awake on the road. Most people drink coffee in the morning when they get up and after each meal. Coffee breaks are a good way to relax at work.
Coffee has a bitter taste, and people usually drink it with sugar or milk. Some people like to drink their coffee black. In Italy they drink very strong black coffee. It’s called espresso. There are some people who drink their coffee with warm milk and the Irish have a special coffee with whisky in it.
There are millions of people who drink coffee in coffee bars or restaurants all over the world. While drinking coffee they talk about the day’s news or they just relax. Coffee bars are a good place to meet people for a chat, and drinking coffee is a simple way to relax. People also drink coffee so that they can keep awake. Students drink it late at night because they want to study. Lorry drivers drink it because they want to keep awake on the road. Most people drink coffee in the morning when they get up and after each meal. Coffee
breaks are a good way to relax at work.
Coffee has a bitter taste, and people usually drink it with sugar or milk. Some people like to drink their coffee black. In Italy they drink very strong black coffee. It’s called espresso. There are some people who drink their coffee with warm milk and the Irish have a special coffee with whisky in it.
Coffee comes from coffee beans and these beans grow on trees. Coffee trees need sunshine and water, so they grow well in hot countries like South America, South Africa, India and the Far East. Coffee trees are very delicate and difficult to grow, and picking the beans is a long process. The workers have a hard job because they pick the beans by hand. This can take a long time. Which country produces the most coffee? Brazil, of course.
As is true of so many other things, the discovery of coffee is lost in legend. No one really knows who had the first thrill of drinking a cup of coffee. But there is a legend that, perhaps a thousand years ago, an Abyssinian was attracted by the pleasant smell that came from a certain wild shrub that was burning. He chewed a few of its berries and liked the taste so much that he brewed a beverage from them- and thus discovered coffee!
We do know that the Abyssinians in eastern Africa were the first to enjoy coffee. Until the fifteenth century, this was the only place in the world where the coffee tree grew. Then it was taken into Arabia. From then on, for 200 years, the world’s coffee came from Yemen, in southern Arabia.
In the seventeenth century, the Dutch began to grow coffee in Java and they distributed the coffee plant to several tropical countries. The English took it to the island of Jamaica, from where it was taken to Central and South America. Soon coffee became very popular in both Europe and the Americas.
The coffee plant thrives in almost any tropical climate, but it grows best on fairly high ground with good drainage. This kind of soil and climate is found in the foothills of Brazil. That’s why today three-fourths of the world’s coffee is produced in Brazil.
In Brazil are found the largest coffee plantations in the world, some of them containing millions of trees and extending for miles. Coffee is also grown in large quantities in Venezuela, Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, and in some countries of the West Indies and Java.
The terms ‘Mocha’ and ‘Java’ used to refer to the places from which the coffee came. But today this is no longer true. They merely designate particular kinds of coffee.
For example, they are both now grown in Brazil, as well as the types known as Rio and Santos. The greatest coffee port in the world is Santos, in Brazil.
The coffee bean is the seed, or stone, of a fruit resembling a small cherry. The fruit grows on a tall bush with shiny leaves. This bean occurs either singly or as two halves with its flat sides facing each other.
While there are more than 25 species of coffee that grow wild in the tropics, only two produce fruit with that distinctive flavour which is brought out by roasting.
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