Coffee Smells|So GOOOOOD

Coffee smells wake up the world every morning and keep people awake at night.  As the German Physician Leonhard Rauwolf said in 1583:

“A beverage as black as ink, useful against numerous illnesses, particularly those of the stomach. Its consumers take it in the morning, quite frankly, in a porcelain cup that is passed around and from which each one drinks a cupful. It is composed of water and the fruit from a bush called bunnu.”

The bush is, of course, the evergreen Coffee bush that was first discovered in Ethiopia when shepherds noticed that their goats were extra frisky after eating the fruit from the Coffee bush.  They are red berries and each berry contains two coffee beans.  So from then on it spread around the world and many countries produce this wake up bean.

The First Thing In The Morning

That morning cup of coffee is used by millions of people around the world to jump start their day.  Grabbing a cup of coffee either at home or at your favorite coffee shop is a morning ritual.  The Coffee may taste a little different in Boston than it does in Bangkok, but the protocol is the same.  Gotta have that first cup or I just can’t function is the mantra of many.

Caffeine

Coffee naturally contains caffeine that wakes them up with the first cup that they drink.  Many of these people are much more alert because they had their cup of this wonderful beverage.  Some people will swear that their coffee gives them energy to fulfill their responsibilities. 

Roasting the Beans

The beans from the plants must be processed before they make up the great drink.  The beans are ripened, harvested and roasted before they are ground for brewing.  The process can be varied to produce different tastes.  The drink served in the most modern shops might be greatly different in taste from that served by nomads far from city centers.  Some people like this beverage without any additions although other people add one or more ingredients to produce their favorite drink.  Some people add milk, whipped cream and sugar.  Others add special flavorings such as hazelnut to make a special kind of drink. 

Coffee has Been Around For Centuries

The first coffee was roasted in Arabia.  From there is spread rapidly around the world and in 1600 it was accepted as a Christian drink by Pope Clement VIII.  Many people at the time wanted the Muslim drink banned.  The Dutch were the first to import coffee on a large scale, and they were among the first to defy the Arab prohibition on the exportation of plants or unroasted seeds when Pieter van den Broeck smuggled seedlings from Aden into Europe in 1616. The Dutch later grew the crop in Java and Ceylon. Through the efforts of the British East India Company, coffee became popular in England as well. It was introduced in France in 1657, and in Austria and Poland after the 1683 Battle of Vienna, when coffee was captured from supplies of the defeated Turks.  When the British cut off tea supplies before the Revolutionary War and then again during the War of 1812, interest in drinking coffee skyrocketed.  They couldn’t avoid coffee smells from then on.