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Coffee and Tea, Facts and Trivia |
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In 1686 the first cafe serving coffee is opened in Paris - Le Procope...it is still in business today! |
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There are two main commercial types of coffee bean - these are Arabica and Robusta. Robusta coffee grows best a lower altitudes whereas Arabica is better suited to higher altitudes. |
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Because sailors are generally cold, they wanted their coffee hot. The term hot cup of joe was used, and then it was shortened to hot joe, then hojo. |
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Over 53 countries grow coffee worldwide, but all of them lie along the equator between the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn. |
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Coffee is the most popular drink worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year. |
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The USA is the world's largest consumer of coffee, importing 16 to 20 million bags annually (2.5 million pounds), representing 1/3 of all coffee exported. More than half of the United States population consumes coffee typically drinking 3.4 cups of coffee a day. |
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The French philosopher, Voltaire, reportedly drank fifty cups of coffee a day. |
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Dorothy Jones of Boston was the first American coffee trader. It was in 1670 that she was granted a license to sell coffee. |
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"Cowboy coffee"? It was said they made their coffee by putting ground coffee into a clean sock and immerse it in cold water and heated over campfire. When ready, they would pour the coffee into tin cups and drink it. |
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It is said that tea itself is about 5,000 years old, and that Emperor Shen Nong is the one who discovered it. The year is 2737 B.C. and he earned the nickname “Father of Tea”. |
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Chai, also known as chai tea, is a delicious spiced milk tea from India. Traditionally chai is a blend of loose leaf tea with added milk, sweetener and spices. The word chai is pronounced with a long "i" sound as in the word "high", and is derived from the Chinese word “cha” which means tea. There is really no fixed recipe or preparation for chai, it basically depends upon a person’s preferences, but the most common spices used for chai are cardamom, cinnamon, ginger and cloves. In India and other parts of South Asia, chai is known as masala chai. It has a distinctly different taste than most western versions of prepared chai which tend to be a little heavier on the sweetener and lighter on the spices.
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