Lets face it, the world has gone coffee mad in the last 10 years. Of course, people have been drinking coffee in some form or the other for hundreds of years. It's generally believed that coffee drinking first appeared in the Middle East about 600 years ago. It spread quickly into Southern Europe and Asia, and then to the Americas, evolving into its present day form. Its popularity grew quickly because of it's stimulating caffeine content, which we all know about.
The most famous coffees in popular culture today include cappuccino, espresso and latte. These days, go down any high street in the Western world and you will find numerous coffee outlets with comfy seating for you and your friends to meet up and enjoy a cup, maybe with a slice of rocky road. Not a bad idea. In the old days, the only place you could meet up with friends was in a bar or a pub. Strangely enough, like alcoholic drinks, each coffee type and outlet seems to have its loyal subjects.
Coffee purists will tell you that you should never drink a cappuccino after midday, but other less serious coffee drinkers are on a quest to discover other flavors and varieties. For example, have you tried Chocolate Glazed Donut Coffee?
To make the perfect cup of coffee it is vital that the coffee beans are ground and mixed with hot water long enough to extract the flavor, but not too long. The hot water should never be boiling as it results in an unpleasant cooked taste
Bringing the perfect cup of coffee into the home keeps getting better. Domestic coffee machines have become more and more popular and sophisticated in recent years. The larger more expensive machines with Italian sounding names take whole coffee beans and grind them just before it makes you the coffee. The smaller ones like those manufactured by Keurig make use of a coffee capsule to give you are more or less instant coffee that tastes like its been freshly ground.
The most famous coffees in popular culture today include cappuccino, espresso and latte. These days, go down any high street in the Western world and you will find numerous coffee outlets with comfy seating for you and your friends to meet up and enjoy a cup, maybe with a slice of rocky road. Not a bad idea. In the old days, the only place you could meet up with friends was in a bar or a pub. Strangely enough, like alcoholic drinks, each coffee type and outlet seems to have its loyal subjects.
Coffee purists will tell you that you should never drink a cappuccino after midday, but other less serious coffee drinkers are on a quest to discover other flavors and varieties. For example, have you tried Chocolate Glazed Donut Coffee?
To make the perfect cup of coffee it is vital that the coffee beans are ground and mixed with hot water long enough to extract the flavor, but not too long. The hot water should never be boiling as it results in an unpleasant cooked taste
Bringing the perfect cup of coffee into the home keeps getting better. Domestic coffee machines have become more and more popular and sophisticated in recent years. The larger more expensive machines with Italian sounding names take whole coffee beans and grind them just before it makes you the coffee. The smaller ones like those manufactured by Keurig make use of a coffee capsule to give you are more or less instant coffee that tastes like its been freshly ground.
