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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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Atomo Coffee, Inc. is a Seattle-based startup company that produces a coffee substitute which it calls "beanless coffee." To mimic the mouthfeel and taste of coffee, the company's cold brew coffee utilizes chicory root, date seeds, grape skins and other ingredients. (Full article...)

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Image 1A coffee shop in Bacoor, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
Image 2Coffeepot (cafetière "campanienne"), part of a service, 1836, hard-paste porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
Image 3Café Ekberg in 2024 (from Coffeehouse)
Image 4A Viennese café (from Coffeehouse)
Image 5A shop specialised in drip coffee in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (from Coffeehouse)
Image 6A coffeehouse in London, 17th century (from Coffeehouse)
Image 7A Viennese coffeehouse (2004) (from Coffee culture)
Image 8Cafés in central Tirana (2017) (from Coffee culture)
Image 9Statue of Fernando Pessoa by Lagoa Henriques, next to the A Brasileira café, in Chiado, Lisbon (from Coffeehouse)
Image 10The 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 11Café Tortoni is an emblematic café in Buenos Aires. Frequented by Jorge Luis Borges among many other figures of Argentina. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 12Wheel coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
Image 13Syrian Bedouin from a beehive village in Aleppo, Syria, sipping the traditional murra (bitter) coffee, 1930 (from History of coffee)
Image 14Various grinders for coffee and spices (from Coffee preparation)
Image 15Commercial espresso machine (from Coffee preparation)
Image 16Home espresso machine without pump (only with steam pressure) (from Coffee preparation)
Image 17Moka pot (from Coffee preparation)
Image 18Les Deux Magots in Paris, once a famous haunt of French intellectuals (2006) (from Coffee culture)
Image 19A variation on the moka pot with the upper section formed as a coffee fountain (from Coffee preparation)
Image 20"Discussing the War in a Paris Café", The Illustrated London News, 17 September 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War (from Coffeehouse)
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 22Drip coffee maker (from Coffee preparation)
Image 23Single serve Vietnamese drip filter (from Coffee preparation)
Image 24A 1652 handbill advertising coffee for sale in St. Michael's Alley, London (from History of coffee)
Image 25Coffee grinder (from Coffee preparation)
Image 26A cup of coffee with cheesecake at a cafe in Helsinki, Finland (from Coffee culture)
Image 27Allow cold brew to steep for 8 to 24 hours. (from Coffee preparation)
Image 28Home espresso machine with pump (from Coffee preparation)
Image 29The Coffee Bearer by John Frederick Lewis (1857) (from History of coffee)
Image 30A coffeehouse in Cairo, 18th century (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 33German Empot coffee maker (from Coffee preparation)
Image 34Dutch engraving of Mocha in 1692 (from History of coffee)
Image 35Palestinian women grinding coffee, 1905 (from History of coffee)
Image 3618th 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 37Filter coffee being brewed (from Coffee preparation)
Image 38Family in Söderhamn, Sweden, seated for fika (c. 1916) (from Coffee culture)
Image 39A coffeehouse in Damascus (2003) (from Coffee culture)
Image 40The word coffee in various European languages (from Coffeehouse)
Image 41Dutch coffee-roasting machine, c. 1920 (from Coffee preparation)
Image 42Trieste from where the cappuccino spread (from Coffeehouse)
Image 43The 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 44Rumah Loer, a contemporary-style coffee shop (Indonesian: rumah kopi kekinian) in Palembang, Indonesia (from Coffeehouse)
Image 45Monsooned Malabar arabica, compared with green Yirgachefe beans from Ethiopia (from History of coffee)
Image 46Kaffa kalid coffeepot, by French silversmith François-Thomas Germain, 1757, silver with ebony handle, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
Image 47A coffee bearer, from the Ottoman quarters in Cairo (1857) (from Coffee culture)
Image 48Café Zimmermann, Leipzig (engraving by Johann Georg Schreiber, 1732) (from History of coffee)
Image 49Centre Place, Melbourne. Australia and New Zealand have competing claims as being the birthplace of the "flat white". (from Coffeehouse)
Image 50Caffè San Marco in Trieste, known for its artists, writers and intellectuals (2014) (from Coffee culture)
Image 51Coffeehouses often sell pastries or other food items. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 52Moka 2 Cup Coffee Fountain (from Coffee preparation)
Image 53Interior of an espresso bar from Baliwag, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
Image 54Caffè Florian in Venice (from Coffeehouse)
Image 55Central European Habsburg coffee house culture: news, coffee, the glass of water and the marble table top (2004) (from Coffee culture)
Image 56Pope Clement VIII: The Pope who popularised coffee in Europe among Christians (from History of coffee)
Image 57Caffe Reggio on MacDougal Street in New York City's Manhattan which was founded in 1927 (from Coffeehouse)
Image 58Coffee plantation (from History of coffee)
Image 59A coffee shop at a library in Melbourne (2006) (from Coffee culture)

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Homemade dalgona coffee

Dalgona coffee, also known as hand beaten coffee, is a beverage originating from Macau made by whipping equal parts instant coffee powder, sugar, and hot water until it becomes creamy and then adding it to cold or hot milk. Occasionally, it is topped with coffee powder, cocoa, crumbled biscuits, or honey. It was popularized on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people refraining from going out started making videos of whipping the coffee at home, by hand without using electrical mixers. After the drink spread to South Korea, it was renamed "dalgona coffee" which is derived from dalgona, a Korean sugar candy, due to the resemblance in taste and appearance, though most dalgona coffee does not actually contain dalgona. (Full article...)

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A Barraquito drink in La Orotava, Tenerife, Canary islands

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... that the city council of Bandung in the Dutch East Indies initially met at the site of a former coffee-packing factory?

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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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