Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Coffee

By Jack Frisks

Do you consider yourself a coffee lover? Perhaps you enjoy a good cup of coffee once a day…or maybe it's a whole pot? But have you ever stopped and wondered just how much more you could enjoy coffee if you just knew a little bit more about it? For example, did you know that there are more than a handful of different ways to brew your morning "cuppa Joe"?

 

"Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Coffee" is designed to teach you more about coffee than you ever imagined you wanted to know. Don't worry, we're not about to take you through the anatomy of the coffee bean (is there such a thing?) but we are about to open your eyes to a whole new world of coffee flavor!

From the differences between the different types of coffee plants, to the differences between roasting, grinding and brewing methods, this book will make sure that you are equipped to make the best cup of coffee of your life by the time you put it down!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Better Tomorrow
• Release date: May 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393597339

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In the United States alone, 83% of adults drink coffee. That’s an incredible 587 MILLION cups of coffee! Out of all of those people who indulge in this thousand year old drink however, very few know anything about its origin, its production, or its versatility.

In this book, we are going to take an in depth look at this favorite drink, from its history and its production, to its use and its effects on the human body. If you truly want to consider yourself a coffee connoisseur, then read on and learn all there is to know!

CHAPTER 1: THE HISTORY OF COFFEE

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If you are truly interested in learning more about coffee, there is no better place to start than by looking at its beginnings history. In this chapter we are going to touch on the somewhat mysterious origin of coffee and follow its use throughout more recent times.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following high points in the history of coffee:

Coffee Legends

The Spread of Coffee

The Distaste for Coffee by North America

Coffee Popularity in Central and South America

COFFEE LEGENDS

No one has a firm idea of just when coffee came in to use, but many believe that it was around the 10th century. This somewhat vague timeframe has been established through legends and reports passed down throughout history. This birth story of coffee hails from Ethiopia and tells of the ancestors of the Oromo people who utilized the coffee plant for its energizing properties. While this story of coffee certainly exists, however, there is little firm evidence that coffee played any role in Ethiopia or Africa in general until much later – the seventeenth century.

While the mention of coffee’s use in Africa didn’t crop up until the seventeenth century, there was, in fact, mention of coffee’s use elsewhere much earlier than that. Historians have discovered evidence of coffee playing a role in the Sufi monasteries in Yemen as early as the 15th century. From this early time, coffee began to play a role in religious communities and soon became a cornerstone in the Islamic world in general. It is, in fact, a Sufi mystic who was credited by many for discovering the energy boosting properties of coffee, rather than the ancestors of the Oromo people. As legend tells, it was a Sufi mystic named Ghothul Akbar Nooruddin Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili, who noticed particularly energetic birds upon