More than just a cup of Joe

By Kia Scales

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Introduction

Coffee has made it a long way over the past 1159 years from the bush of African, to the bushes of South America. From the hand powered coffee grinder to the multimillion dollar factories. From the hometown corner coffee house to the mega million coffee houses dominating the corners of every popular city, state, country, and continent. With coffee giants like star bucks coffee catalog. And instant coffee helps coffee catch up with the rest of the world. Coffee is taking over with no sign of stopping.

Random facts about coffee

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• Coffee was first known in Europe as Arabian wine.
• The coffee tree produces approximately 4,000 beans annually, which is          equivalent to one pound of roasted coffee.
• Raw coffee beans soaked in water and spices are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
• Coffee as a world commodity is second only to oil.
• A coffee plant requires more than 70 inches of water per year to thrive.
• The first coffee drinkers in the Middle East used cinnamon to flavor their coffee.
• The Average American adult consumes over 10 pounds of coffee per year.
• The coffee plant is native only to Eithiopia and Yemen.
• The two most commonly grown species of the coffee plant are Coffea canephora and C. Arabica. 
• In the 17^th century, coffee became so popular in Europe that some people thought it was atool of the devil. However, Pope Clement VIII loved it so much after tasting it that he baptized coffee, which made it a Christian drink.   
• Coffee is the second most traded product in the world- after petroleum. 
• Some 18^th century Germans thought that coffee could make women sterile, so women were encouraged to drink beer instead. 
• In Greece and Turkey, the oldest person is almost always served their coffee first. 
• Brazil released coffee-scented postage stamps in 2001. The smell is supposed to last 3-5 years. 
• October 1^st is “Coffee Day” in Japan. 

Starbucks

Many things have come out of Seattle grunge music, Microsoft software, backgrounds to our favorite TV shows and movies but also the coffee birth place of coffee giant star bucks. Starbucks was created in Seattle by three friends Zev Siegl, Jerry Baldwin and Gordon Bowker. Starbucks has expanded from a small hometown store with a good cup of coffee to a amazing multi million dollar power house that provides entertainment, baked goods, tea and smoothies. Star bucks has coffee, ice coffee, tea ice tea, misto (café au lait),latte, cappuccino, Carmel macchiato, Americano, mocha, white mocha, mocha valicino, cinnamon mocha, taffy latte mocha, espresso , espresso macchiato, espresso con panna, and 49 other coffee, adders, toppers, seasonal drinks, tea, and smoothies.

And don’t forget those infamous cup sizes as mocked in the movie role models. We all ask our self is short, tall, Grande, and venti really necessary can’t we just say small, medium, large, and REALLY large.    

Coffee first

• In 850 AD a Ethiopian goat herder found out that both he and his goats were happier and energized after eating a berry.

• 1100 AD coffee was first cultivated by Arabs. They also started roasting and boiled by them and they called it gahwa.

• In 1475 the first coffee shop opens in Constantinople.

• 1607 coffee was brought into the new world by captain john smith (but Canadians argue it was already in Canada before that).

• In 1713 king Louis XIV was given a coffee and he began to put sugar in it.

• 1723 coffee is brought to the Americas to be cultivated

• 1727 the Brazilian coffee industry starts smuggling coffee seedling from Paris

• 1905 the fist commercial espresso machine was manufactured in Italy

• 1905 the first drip coffee maker was manufactured and melitta bentz makes the first filters from blotting paper

• 1933 dr. Ernest Illy makes the first automatic coffee maker

• 1945 Achilles gaggia perfects the espresso maker and adds a piston witch add a thick layer of crema also known as cream

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