the.com/coffee
the legal drug we schedule meetings around, disguised as a beverage.
means A brewed, usually hot drink made from the roasted and ground seeds of the coffee plant, prized for its bitter flavor and its caffeine kick.
from The word traveled a long road: from Arabic 'qahwa' (originally a term for a kind of wine, later transferred to the dark brew) into Turkish as 'kahve,' then into Italian as 'caffè' and Dutch as 'koffie,' before settling into English in the early 1600s. Many trace the plant itself back to the Kaffa region of Ethiopia, though whether that place-name shaped the word is uncertain and probably a coincidence.
- goat origin
- Discovered when goats ate berries and danced sleeplessly
- global thirst
- Over two billion cups drunk daily worldwide
- banned repeatedly
- Mecca, Sweden, and kings all tried outlawing it
- sweat the bean
- Civet poop coffee sells for hundreds per pound
- half-life
- Caffeine lingers in your blood roughly five hours
kopi luwak — indonesian coffee made from civet cat digestive process, costs $35-100 per pound
blue mountain coffee — jamaican high-altitude coffee from blue mountains region, costs $50+ per pound
kona coffee — hawaiian coffee from kona district on big island, accounts for 1% of world's specialty coffee
ethiopian yirgacheffe — coffee from ethiopia's yirgacheffe region, birthplace of coffee with wild heirloom varieties