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Introduction

Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted, ground coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content, but decaffeinated coffee is also commercially available. There are also various coffee substitutes.

Coffee production begins when the seeds from coffee cherries (the Coffea plant's fruits) are separated to produce unroasted green coffee beans. The "beans" are roasted and then ground into fine particles. Coffee is brewed from the ground roasted beans, which are typically steeped in hot water before being filtered out. 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. Credible evidence of coffee drinking as the modern beverage subsequently 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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Camp Coffee is a brand of coffee and chicory syrup from the United Kingdom. Originally intended as a form of instant coffee, it is now primarily used in baking. It was first produced in 1876 by Paterson & Sons Ltd, in Glasgow.

In 1974, Dennis Jenks merged his business with Paterson to form Paterson Jenks plc. In 1984, Paterson Jenks plc was bought by McCormick & Company. McCormick UK Ltd assimilated Paterson Jenks into the Schwartz brand. Camp is now produced in Paisley, Renfrewshire. (Full article...)

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Image 1Filter coffee being brewed (from Coffee preparation)
Image 2Home espresso machine without pump (only with steam pressure) (from Coffee preparation)
Image 3A coffeehouse in London, 17th century (from Coffeehouse)
Image 4A cup of coffee with cheesecake at a cafe in Helsinki, Finland (from Coffee culture)
Image 5A Viennese café (from Coffeehouse)
Image 6A coffeehouse in Damascus (2003) (from Coffee culture)
Image 7Coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
Image 8A 1652 handbill advertising coffee for sale in St. Michael's Alley, London (from History of coffee)
Image 9Centre Place, Melbourne. Australia and New Zealand have competing claims as being the birthplace of the "flat white". (from Coffeehouse)
Image 10Rumah Loer, a contemporary-style coffee shop (Indonesian: rumah kopi kekinian) in Palembang, Indonesia (from Coffeehouse)
Image 11Monsooned Malabar arabica, compared with green Yirgachefe beans from Ethiopia (from History of coffee)
Image 12Family in Söderhamn, Sweden, seated for fika (c. 1916) (from Coffee culture)
Image 13Coffeepot (cafetière "campanienne"), part of a service, 1836, hard-paste porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
Image 14Dutch engraving of Mocha in 1692 (from History of coffee)
Image 15Les Deux Magots in Paris, once a famous haunt of French intellectuals (2006) (from Coffee culture)
Image 16Drip coffee maker (from Coffee preparation)
Image 17Kaffa kalid coffeepot, by French silversmith François-Thomas Germain, 1757, silver with ebony handle, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
Image 18The word coffee in various European languages (from Coffeehouse)
Image 19Moka 2 Cup Coffee Fountain (from Coffee preparation)
Image 20Various grinders for coffee and spices (from Coffee preparation)
Image 21In 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)
Image 22Café Tortoni is an emblematic café in Buenos Aires. Frequented by Jorge Luis Borges among many other figures of Argentina. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 23Cafés in central Tirana (2017) (from Coffee culture)
Image 24Home espresso machine with pump (from Coffee preparation)
Image 25A Viennese coffeehouse (2004) (from Coffee culture)
Image 26Wheel coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
Image 27Pope Clement VIII: The Pope who popularised coffee in Europe among Christians (from History of coffee)
Image 28Caffè Florian in Venice (from Coffeehouse)
Image 29Central European Habsburg coffee house culture: news, coffee, the glass of water and the marble table top (2004) (from Coffee culture)
Image 30Coffeehouses often sell pastries or other food items. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 31Coffee house culture between Vienna and Trieste: the coffee, the newspaper, the glass of water and the marble tabletop (from History of coffee)
Image 32Caffè Florian in Venice (2015) (from Coffee culture)
Image 33Palestinian women grinding coffee, 1905 (from History of coffee)
Image 34The Coffee Bearer by John Frederick Lewis (1857) (from History of coffee)
Image 35"Discussing the War in a Paris Café", The Illustrated London News, 17 September 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War (from Coffeehouse)
Image 36Allow cold brew to steep for 8 to 24 hours. (from Coffee preparation)
Image 37Commercial espresso machine (from Coffee preparation)
Image 38Syrian Bedouin from a beehive village in Aleppo, Syria, sipping the traditional murra (bitter) coffee, 1930 (from History of coffee)
Image 39The Café de Flore on the Rive Gauche 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)
Image 40Caffe Reggio on MacDougal Street in New York City's Manhattan which was founded in 1927 (from Coffeehouse)
Image 41A variation on the moka pot with the upper section formed as a coffee fountain (from Coffee preparation)
Image 42Trieste from where the cappuccino spread (from Coffeehouse)
Image 43Statue of Fernando Pessoa by Lagoa Henriques, next to the A Brasileira café, in Chiado, Lisbon (from Coffeehouse)
Image 44A shop specialised in drip coffee in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (from Coffeehouse)
Image 45Café Ekberg in 2024 (from Coffeehouse)
Image 46A coffee shop at a library in Melbourne (2006) (from Coffee culture)
Image 47Dutch coffee-roasting machine, c. 1920 (from Coffee preparation)
Image 48Caffè San Marco in Trieste, known for its artists, writers and intellectuals (2014) (from Coffee culture)
Image 49A coffee shop in Bacoor, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
Image 50Moka pot (from Coffee preparation)
Image 51Interior of an espresso bar from Baliwag, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
Image 52A coffeehouse in Cairo, 18th century (from Coffeehouse)
Image 53A coffee bearer, from the Ottoman quarters in Cairo (1857) (from Coffee culture)
Image 5418th 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)
Image 55German Empot coffee maker (from Coffee preparation)
Image 56Coffee plantation (from History of coffee)
Image 57The 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)
Image 58Single serve Vietnamese drip filter (from Coffee preparation)
Image 59Café Zimmermann, Leipzig (engraving by Johann Georg Schreiber, 1732) (from History of coffee)

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Classic frappé with no milk

A frappé coffee, cold coffee, Greek frappé, or just frappé (Greek: φραπέ, frapé [fraˈpe]) is a Greek iced coffee drink generally made from spray-dried instant coffee, water, sugar, and milk. The word is often written frappe (without an accent). The frappé was invented in 1957 in Thessaloniki through experimentation by Dimitris Vakondios, a Nescafe representative. Greek Christos Lenzos (1930–2023), a coffeehouse (1964–2013) owner in Pangrati, has been recognized for his self-made version of Greek frappé coffee. Frappés are among the most popular forms of coffee in Greece and Cyprus and have become a hallmark of postwar outdoor Greek coffee culture. (Full article...)

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An espresso con panna

Credit: Xipirho

Espresso con panna, which means "espresso with cream" in Italian, is a single or double shot of espresso topped with whipped cream. In the U.S. it may also be called café Vienne and in the U.K. café Viennois.

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... that in a copyright infringement case over a coffee-table history of the Grateful Dead, the Second Circuit held that a reuser can still claim fair use despite negotiating with the rights holder?
... that the Highfield Cocoa and Coffee House in Sheffield, England, sold tea, coffee and cocoa at a penny a pint and also provided billiards and reading rooms?
... that Franz Liszt's female admirers would fight over his cigar stubs and coffee dregs as souvenirs?

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