Each person takes his coffee differently. Some like it with sugar. I personally love coffee with sugar and milk. What is certain is that people who drink coffee find it indispensable. In the morning the first thing a person does is to press the button of the coffee machine!
The coffee bean was first imported by our friends the Vinicians in the 1600s. The coffee tree probably originated in Ethiopia, in the province of Kaffa, but the question is not absolutely settled. The most common legend has it that a shepherd from Abyssinia (Ethiopia), Kaldi, noticed the tonic effect of this shrub on his goats...
The café is a real institution with a long history. In Britain and the USA it was originally the Italians that ran these coffee houses, which became the centres of community life (see the "Happy Days" link above). Their coffee machines are truely beautiful magic boxes, full of hissing and gargling, with the promise of dark, steamy, frothy cappuccino or machiatto... Humm, that smell!
Article by Laura Caumel
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