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Introduction

Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It has the highest sales in the world market for hot drinks.

The seeds of the Coffea plant's fruits are separated to produce unroasted green coffee beans. The beans are roasted and then ground into fine particles typically steeped in hot water before being filtered out, producing a cup of coffee. 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. The earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking as the modern beverage 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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In 17th- and 18th-century England, coffeehouses served as public social places where men would meet for conversation and commerce. For the price of a penny, customers purchased a cup of coffee and admission. Travellers introduced coffee as a beverage to England during the mid-17th century; previously it had been consumed mainly for its supposed medicinal properties. Coffeehouses also served tea and hot chocolate as well as a light meal.

The historian Brian Cowan describes English coffeehouses as "places where people gathered to drink coffee, learn the news of the day, and perhaps to meet with other local residents and discuss matters of mutual concern." The absence of alcohol created an atmosphere in which it was possible to engage in more serious conversation than in an alehouse. Coffeehouses also played an important role in the development of financial markets and newspapers.

Topics discussed included politics and political scandals, daily gossip, fashion, current events, and debates surrounding philosophy and the natural sciences. Historians often associate English coffeehouses, during the 17th and 18th centuries, with the intellectual and cultural history of the Age of Enlightenment: they were an alternate sphere, supplementary to the university. Political groups frequently used coffeehouses as meeting places. (Full article...)

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Image 1A coffee shop at a library in Melbourne (2006) (from Coffee culture)
Image 2Coffee house culture between Vienna and Trieste: the coffee, the newspaper, the glass of water and the marble tabletop (from History of coffee)
Image 3Kaffa kalid coffeepot, by French silversmith François-Thomas Germain, 1757, silver with ebony handle, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
Image 4A Viennese coffeehouse (2004) (from Coffee culture)
Image 5Dutch engraving of Mocha in 1692 (from History of coffee)
Image 6Home espresso machine without pump (only with steam pressure) (from Coffee preparation)
Image 7A coffee shop in Bacoor, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
Image 8Café neon sign in Breda (from Coffeehouse)
Image 9Monsooned Malabar arabica, compared with green Yirgachefe beans from Ethiopia (from History of coffee)
Image 10A variation on the moka pot with the upper section formed as a coffee fountain (from Coffee preparation)
Image 11Drip coffee maker (from Coffee preparation)
Image 12The Coffee Bearer by John Frederick Lewis (1857) (from History of coffee)
Image 13An espresso by the glass in Trieste - in the local dialect "Nero in B" (from Coffee culture)
Image 14Wheel coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
Image 15Coffee plantation (from History of coffee)
Image 16Central European Habsburg coffee house culture: news, coffee, the glass of water and the marble table top (2004) (from Coffee culture)
Image 17The word coffee in various European languages (from Coffeehouse)
Image 18Coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
Image 19In 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 20A coffeehouse in London, 17th century (from Coffeehouse)
Image 21The Café de Flore 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 22Commercial espresso machine (from Coffee preparation)
Image 23Home espresso machine with pump (from Coffee preparation)
Image 24Pope Clement VIII: The Pope who popularised coffee in Europe among Christians (from History of coffee)
Image 25Rumah Loer, a contemporary-style coffee shop (Indonesian: rumah kopi kekinian) in Palembang, Indonesia (from Coffeehouse)
Image 26Filter coffee being brewed (from Coffee preparation)
Image 27Centre Place, Melbourne. Australia and New Zealand have competing claims as being the birthplace of the "flat white". (from Coffeehouse)
Image 28Single serve Vietnamese drip filter (from Coffee preparation)
Image 29Moka 2 Cup Coffee Fountain (from Coffee preparation)
Image 3018th 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 31"Discussing the War in a Paris Café", The Illustrated London News, 17 September 1870 (from Coffeehouse)
Image 32Caffe Reggio on MacDougal Street in New York City's Greenwich Village which was founded in 1927 (from Coffeehouse)
Image 33Allow cold brew to steep for 8 to 24 hours (from Coffee preparation)
Image 34A coffeehouse in Damascus (2003) (from Coffee culture)
Image 35Roadside café on the summer terrace. Buryatia, Russia (from Coffeehouse)
Image 36Cafés in central Tirana (2017) (from Coffee culture)
Image 37The Grey Owl Coffee shop in Norman, Oklahoma (from Coffeehouse)
Image 38Family in Söderhamn, Sweden, seated for fika (c. 1916) (from Coffee culture)
Image 39Interior of an espresso bar from Baliuag, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
Image 40Statue of Fernando Pessoa by Lagoa Henriques, next to the A Brasileira café, in Chiado, Lisbon. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 41A café in a former church, Utrecht (from Coffeehouse)
Image 42Palestinian women grinding coffee, 1905 (from History of coffee)
Image 43Les Deux Magots in Paris, once a famous haunt of French intellectuals (2006) (from Coffee culture)
Image 44Syrian Bedouin from a beehive village in Aleppo, Syria, sipping the traditional murra (bitter) coffee, 1930 (from History of coffee)
Image 45Café Kampela, Helsinki (from Coffeehouse)
Image 46A cup of coffee with cheesecake at a cafe in Helsinki, Finland (from Coffee culture)
Image 47Inside of a kopitiam, Malaysia (from Coffeehouse)
Image 48Coffeepot (cafetière "campanienne"), part of a service, 1836, hard-paste porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
Image 49Dutch coffee-roasting machine, c. 1920 (from Coffee preparation)
Image 50Caffè Florian in Venice (from Coffeehouse)
Image 51Caffè Florian in Venice (2015) (from Coffee culture)
Image 52A Viennese café (from Coffeehouse)
Image 53The 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 54Coffeehouses often sell pastries or other food items. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 55A shop specialised in drip coffee in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (from Coffeehouse)
Image 56Moka pot (from Coffee preparation)
Image 57A coffeehouse in Cairo, 18th century (from Coffeehouse)
Image 58A coffee bearer, from the Ottoman quarters in Cairo (1857) (from Coffee culture)
Image 59Café Mélange, Vienna (from Coffeehouse)
Image 60Coffee break in Belgrade (2013) (from Coffee culture)
Image 61A 1652 handbill advertising coffee for sale in St. Michael's Alley, London (from History of coffee)
Image 62Trieste from where the cappuccino spread (from Coffeehouse)
Image 63Café Tortoni is an emblematic café in Buenos Aires. Frequented by Jorge Luis Borges among many other figures of Argentina. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 64Caffè San Marco in Trieste, known for its artists, writers and intellectuals (2014) (from Coffee culture)
Image 65Various grinders for coffee and spices (from Coffee preparation)
Image 66Café Zimmermann, Leipzig (engraving by Johann Georg Schreiber, 1732) (from History of coffee)

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Mazagran

Mazagran (also called café mazagran, formerly spelled masagran) is a cold, sweetened coffee drink that originated in Algeria. Portuguese versions may use espresso, lemon, mint and rum, and Austrian versions are served with an ice cube and include rum. Sometimes a fast version is achieved by pouring a previously sweetened espresso in a cup with ice cubes and a slice of lemon. Mazagran has been described as "the original iced coffee". (Full article...)

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Coffee bean

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A close-up view of roasted Coffee beans

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... that the Chronicle of the 20th Century was so heavy that it was said to be "the first coffee table book seriously to threaten the well-being of coffee-tables"?
... that during the October 1980 West Nile campaign, rebels were initially hailed as "liberators", only for them to start looting coffee?
... that Franz Liszt's female admirers would fight over his cigar stubs and coffee dregs as souvenirs?
... that Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London?
... that Arab Coffeehouse depicts Henri Matisse's visit to Tangier, where he saw its locals gaze for hours into fishbowls?
... that Justly Watson died suddenly in 1757 from the effects of poison administered in his coffee, it was believed, by a servant?
... that the short story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was chosen by John Updike as a selection for the Today Show book club on NBC?
... that Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly was released after the main creator of Coffee Talk died in March 2022?

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World Coffee Research – a 501 (c)(5) nonprofit program of the international coffee industry. (Wikipedia article: World Coffee Research)
Coffee Research Foundation – based in Kenya, and founded in 1908
Central Coffee Research Institute – based in Chickmagalur District, India, and founded in 1915

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v t e Coffee
Topics	Economics Fair trade History International Coffee Day Single-origin coffee Third-wave coffee
Production	Coffee production Organic coffee Shade-grown coffee Sustainable coffee List of countries by coffee production Coffee roasting Coffee wastewater Decaffeination Home roasting
Species and varieties	Arabica Benguet Blue Mountain Bonifieur Bourbon Geisha Kona Maracaturra Maragogipe Molokai S795 Sagada Charrieriana Liberica Barako Racemosa Robusta Sulu
Components	Cafestol Caffeic acid Caffeine Coffee bean Furan-2-ylmethanethiol Kahweol
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Competitions	United States Barista Championship World Barista Championship World Brewers Cup
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v t e Coffee production by region
Top 20 producers (2014)	Brazil Colombia Costa Rica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Ethiopia Guatemala Honduras India Indonesia Java Ivory Coast Mexico Nicaragua Papua New Guinea Peru Tanzania Thailand Uganda Vietnam
Other cultivators	Angola Bolivia China Cameroon Cuba Democratic Republic of the Congo East Timor Guadeloupe Guam Haiti Jamaica Kenya Laos Martinique Panama Paraguay Philippines Puerto Rico Sri Lanka United States (Hawaii) Venezuela
Lists	List of countries by coffee production List of countries by coffee exports

v t e Coffee in Italy
Roasters	illy Lavazza Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group Caffè Pascucci Caffè del Doge Guglielmo Caffè
Historical Coffeehouses	Antico Caffè Greco Caffè Bardi Caffè-Pasticceria Cova Caffè Florian Caffè Giubbe Rosse Caffè Lavena Caffè Michelangiolo Caffè Quadri Caffè San Marco Caffè Fiorio Caffè Gambrinus Gran Caffè Doney Palazzina Majani, Bologna Pedrocchi Café Antico Caffè Spinnato
People	Alfonso Bialetti Francesco Illy Luigi Lavazza Angelo Moriondo
Technology	Bialetti Caffitaly Cimbali FrancisFrancis De'Longhi Elektra Faema Gaggia La Marzocco Lelit Rancilio Saeco Smeg
Drinks	Affogato Barbajada Bicerin Bombardino Caffè corretto Caffè crema Caffè macchiato Espressino Espresso Lungo Ristretto Doppio Latte macchiato Marocchino Mocaccino Shakerato Gassosa al caffè Moretta
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