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The legend of coffee

There are several legends about the origin of coffee, among which the more familiar is the story of the shepherd: around 600 AD, a shepherd found that his sheep would hiss excitedly every night. In fear, he asked the priest in the temple for help. After carefully observing the sheep for a few days, the priest found that the sheep had eaten an unknown fruit. The priest ate some of it himself and found the fruit exciting. Since then, the priest called it "a sacred object that removes drowsiness and purifies the mind." since then, coffee has become medicine, food and drink. In 1200 AD, coffee was spread by a Muslim who had been exiled to Yemen for crime. From the origin to the Red Sea to Athens, Cairo, 1300 and then to Iran, 1500 or so to Turkey, coffee has gradually become a popular drink.

As for shops that sell coffee, the legend begins with Mecca, a Muslim shrine. Around the 17th century, coffee became more and more popular in Italy, India, Britain and other places through trade routes.

Around 1650, the first coffee shop in Western Europe filled with fragrance appeared in Oxford, England.

…… During the Renaissance in 1605, some Christians thought that coffee was a pagan drink and called it "Satan's drink" and asked the then pope to order a ban on it, but the pope who tried the "devil's drink" was amazed that there was such a delicious drink in the world, so he arranged a baptism and formally designated coffee as a Christian drink, extending coffee from Muslim areas to other areas.

The origin of the word coffee

The word "coffee" comes from the Greek word "Kaweh", which means "strength and passion". Coffee tree is an evergreen shrub of Capsaceae. Daily coffee is made from coffee beans combined with a variety of cooking utensils, and coffee beans refer to the nuts in the fruit of the coffee tree, which are then roasted with appropriate roasting methods.

Coffee epic

Espresso spitting smoke rings in the coffee shop, a cup of warm hands and warm heart in the hands of friends in the winter afternoon, or even busy regular days, messy desks quietly release a cup of soothing instant coffee, every day, all kinds of people, in different corners of the world, waiting for a good cup of coffee.

People who are addicted to coffee can never imagine how to spend the winter without coffee to keep warm. And even those who do not drink coffee can not help but smell the original aroma of their inspiration from the works of many writers and artists: Beethoven's music, Picasso's paintings, and Haruki Murakami's words.

For hundreds of years, coffee has changed history in a way that is the most subdued and gentle, but the most defenseless.

In coffee, find a way for the soul to fly

It is said that the earliest coffee tree in the world appeared in the highly mature mountains of Ethiopia around the 10th century AD. Caldy, a wandering shepherd far from home in the dry season, suddenly found that the sheep had become more active and noisier than usual after eating the fruit of a wild shrub. He curiously picked some fruits and tasted them, but also wanted to dance happily on the prairie.

He distributed the fruits he had picked to the monks in the monastery, often helping them stay awake during the long evening prayers. The story of the magical fruit soon drifted away with the wandering steps of the nomads. From then on, crushing the coffee fruit and mixing it with animal fat into hard lumps, as an energy-boosting snack, became an addiction they could not quit during their lonely and bumpy nomadic life. It is even said that this group of earliest coffee people, Ethiopian women with the same skin color as coffee, have learned to make wine from fermented coffee fruits.

It seems that from the beginning, people have found a way to fly their hearts from coffee.

-- Burning the world's first cup of coffee from the Middle East

It is generally believed that the first cup of coffee in the world was carefully brewed by Arabs. In the oral literature of many European travelers at the end of the 16th century, Arabs sipped a kind of black molasses made from black seeds, confirming that long before Europeans embraced coffee in the 13th century, Arabs knew how to roast coffee and use the hot marks of fire to imprint fragrance.

From the first cup of mellow coffee, after two hundred years of time, in 1530, the world's first coffee shop was finally born in Damascus in the Middle East.

In 1615, coffee was stationed in Europe with the traveling merchants of Venice, and the French and Italians went crazy. They wrote books, poems, and even wars for it, as the Viennese proverb said: "the Europeans can stop the bow knife of Turkey, but not the coffee of Turkey.] They burn the flames of war just to make a good cup of coffee in the beacon lights.

Coffee, swinging between the wings of angels and the downfall of the devil

When coffee first arrived in Italy, many conservative clergy called it Satan's masterpiece and suggested that it be expelled, so Pope Clemon VIII decided to taste it himself, when he sipped a demonic thick black serous from a warm cup. But he couldn't help changing his dictation: "Let coffee be washed into God's drink!"

To this day, in the hearts of many people, coffee still swings between the wings of angels and the downfall of the devil.

In 1654, the first coffee shop in Europe appeared on the streets of Venice. Over the next few decades, coffee shop signs releasing fragrance have been lit up in London, Paris and Vienna one after another. before the popular myth of CoCo Chanel and Gianni Versace invaded the modified European window, the coffee shop swept the world quietly in the least ostentatious and arrogant manner.

Since then, we have entered the era of coffee shops. Buried deeply in the memory of my father and brother, the golden age of coffee and literature began.

Have a long history

If the origin of coffee can be traced back to ancient African and Arab cultures, then the cafe people remember today is a pure European culture, or more accurately, a cradle of modern European civilization.

A pure product of European culture

Venice in 1645 gave birth to the first open street cafe in Europe. Paris and Vienna also followed, with relaxed and romantic French sentiment and Viennese literati temperament in their own style, which became the forerunner of the two major trends of European cafes in the future.

The embodiment of the life form of the upper society

The cafe brought the closed salon life of the upper class to the streets. in many cities, it was the earliest public social place where citizens could meet freely. People read newspapers, debate, play cards and play billiards here. The famous "coffee shop writer" claims that his lifelong career is first as a regular customer of a coffee shop, followed by a writer, and that he goes to a coffee shop not for coffee, but as a way of existence. From Rousseau and Voltaire, the banner of freedom of personality liberation, to many famous literati at that time, they all had their own cafes for regular meetings. For example, Dickens, the founder of realistic novels, Balzac and Zola, Picasso, and even Freud, the master of psychoanalysis, a series of brilliant names, write down the history of cultural development in modern Europe for hundreds of years in the regulars of different cafes.

Coffee and mood

Do you want a cup of coffee when you are in a good mood or when you are in a bad mood? Everyone's answer is different, but because coffee is a drink when you are in a good mood, you can taste the delicious coffee only when you want to see the blue sky and bask in the gentle sun. When you are in a bad mood, you should go to the bar for a drink. Lazy jazz, gripping opera, romantic French chanting or soft piano playing in the cafe are the most common music you will hear. Of course, it has something to do with the taste of the cafe owner. You can chat with close friends or bosom friends to discuss the topics they are interested in. With the deepening of time, you will find that your mood is gradually calm, and even some moved, all the reasons are very simple: casual.

Have a cup of coffee when you feel in a good mood today, and you will find the best side of coffee.

Coffee spirit

People who have drunk coffee know that coffee is bitter, and many people think it doesn't taste good. So they added some sugar to the coffee. Because the sweetened coffee is sweet, it is easier to taste and tastes sweeter. But coffee without sugar is mellow. The entrance may be bitter, but after aftertaste, unsweetened coffee is like an unretouched diamond. Naturally, there is a dazzling light, in which you will understand that the true bitterness will come, and you will appreciate the combination of life and nature. Too much coffee without sugar is like human life, after bitterness is mellow and tranquil sweetness, restlessness is calm enjoyment, patience is the vast sky. So, don't add sugar to coffee, don't let yourself indulge in sweetness, don't give yourself a chance to bow to suffering, don't let yourself bow to difficulties.

The Story of the Cafe

Coffee shop regulars come from the broad sense of the "leisure class", teaching and learning, according to each side, looking for fun and bosom friends in all kinds of cafes and smoke. "Gentleman Cafe", "Painters Cafe", "journalist Cafe", "Music Cafe", "College Student Cafe", "Congressman Cafe", "Workers Cafe", "Actors Cafe", "psychologist Cafe" and so on, each has its own atmosphere and style. It can also be said that the cafe is a witness to the history of European civilization.

Store your mood in a 100% coffee cup

A wide variety of coffee cups, is a sea of mood, you can listen to the sound of the waves of your heart.

Some people say that a cup of coffee foster a cup of mood, and a wide variety of coffee cups, like a sea of mood, ups and downs of people's various emotions.

How many cups do you have? Have you ever listened to the fluctuation of your heart while drinking warm coffee in a person's night? From these warm coffee cups, what else can you read except the mood of coffee?

The dependence complex of coffee VS cup size

In many cases, the intensity of a cup of coffee can be roughly judged from the size of the coffee cup.

The sizes of coffee cups are generally divided into three types:

* small coffee cups below 100CC-mostly used to hold strong and scalding espresso or individual coffee, such as Espresso, which is only about 50CC, although it can be drunk almost in one sip, the lingering mellow aftertaste and the temperature that seems to be warm forever can most warm the mood and stomach. The Cappuccino with milk foam has a slightly larger capacity than Espresso. The wide mouth of the cup can show the rich and beautiful foam.

* ordinary coffee cups around 200CC-the most common coffee cups, light American coffee mostly choose such cups, there is enough room for self-preparation, add cream and sugar.

* mugs above 300CC or milk coffee cups for French Ole-Coffee with a lot of milk, such as lattes, American mochas, multi-use mugs, is enough to contain its sweet and diverse taste. The romantic French, on the other hand, are used to using a large bowl of milk coffee (Ole coffee) to render a mood of joy that lasts for a whole morning.

There are still traces to judge the difference between the teacup and the coffee cup from the shape and size.

Usually, in order to retain the rich aroma of coffee and reduce temperature evaporation, the mouth of the coffee cup is narrower and the cup body is thicker. On the other hand, most of the black tea cups have a wide mouth and high light transmittance to reflect the clear and transparent brown color.

Pottery and porcelain, the elegant and elegant dialogue of sincere VS

The simplicity of pottery and the roundness of porcelain each tell different coffee comments. Some people like to use pottery cups with rich texture, dressed with masculine and strong deep-roasted coffee, but most people still use porcelain cups to explain the meticulous aroma of coffee.

Among them, the bone porcelain made of high-grade porcelain clay and mixed animal bone powder has light texture, soft color and high thermal insulation, which can best retain the warm memory of coffee.

Put the coffee in a cup with the right temperature.

Warm mood, of course, should be filled with a warm cup.

Warming the cup, although it is only a simple step, is an indispensable key to preserving the aroma of coffee. Because, just out of the boiling coffee, once poured into the cold cup, the temperature suddenly dropped, the flavor will be greatly reduced.

In your own warm cup, the easiest way is to flush it directly into the hot water, or put it in the bowl dryer to warm it up in advance. If you entertain a table at the same time, you can boil a pot of water and soak all the cups together.

Before tasting the coffee, don't forget to warm a cup with the right heat and completely seal all the flavors of the coffee.

Exquisite archives of bone porcelain

* ingredients-made of 25% bone powder and 75% high-grade porcelain clay.

* characteristics-light texture (weight), strong light transmittance, soft color and high density (fragile, easy to clean), high temperature resistance (good thermal insulation).

* the way to judge when choosing-yellowing in the light and a crisp metal sound when tapping.

* maintenance code-it is best to wash it by hand and use the dishwasher only with fewer users. The PH value of the detergent must be between 11 and 11.5. the water temperature should not exceed 70 ℃ when washing in the dishwasher and 80 ℃ when washing with clean water. be careful not to soak the hot cup directly in cold water so as not to change the temperature rapidly.

Coffee beans next door to Oracle Dictionary

Drink only three or four cups of espresso a day to maintain the full charm of love. But often buy too many cans of coffee beans, because I like the metal hue of the polished body, like the tropical stereo rustling in the can, and like to imagine them waiting quietly. Waiting for the fragrance that does not flow out easily, waiting for a coffee extractor, a pair of gentle and affectionate hands, a cup and plate of famous bone porcelain, a small circle of mahogany, a romantic cup-holding posture.

Playing with roasted coffee beans, thinking that he is more or less a fetish pervert. And I can't bear to sacrifice a coffee bean just to watch. After biting open the coffee beans with chocolate glossy skin, half of them are left in the mouth to chew, half in the hands to watch, there is a fragrance in the mouth, so that I do not feel quiet, the memory leads to the distant years, carefully distinguish her taste in history. Even the sweetness and bitterness of the fragrance, only imagine the memory of self-combination, and do not belong to this life. Half of the beans left in the hand look like chocolate-flavored Haagen-Dazs.

I also like to review the coffee beans on the bottom of the thick Spanish pine bookshelf next to the Jiafengwen Dictionary. A row of silver iron cans, her connotation than the Moroccan small leather hardcover Proust à la recherche du temps perdu "Remembrance of time" is better at tracing the golden years.

Plump coffee beans, like me, like cool and refreshing air. In this hot and humid south

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