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Only on the coffee table can you see the playful side of the Europeans. Gossip is spread on the coffee table, and if there is no coffee in continental Europe, people's lives will be half tarnished. When a Venetian merchant who only wanted to make some money introduced coffee to the European continent in the 17th century, he did not know how this small bag of mysterious black powder had completely changed the lives of Europeans in the following centuries. "fall asleep in the smell of perfume and wake up from the smell of coffee"-a beautiful Ferris city or a quiet remote town, if you haven't found a cafe within a hundred paces, you have to wonder if you have really arrived in Europe.

Before coming to Sweden, my understanding of coffee was basically a rookie. The tea bar in the university has elegant seats as well as coffee supply. I once went to have coffee with my best friend with salted dried peanuts. The poor taste of cheap coffee spoiled all my imagination about the charm of coffee. Later, I met my husband-he couldn't do without coffee all day. He came to see me and opened a door to my coffee life. In the cool coffee smell of the never-visited Starbucks Cafe, a cup of cappuccino and a piece of Tira Misu are a perfect match. The lingering taste makes me shout out its meaning like Tira Misu: take me away.

Drink tea slowly, drink coffee quickly, a cup of hot coffee just out, after 5 minutes do not drink will become "poison", that cooling taste, taste as bad as a bowl of traditional Chinese medicine. Isabel Allende, the fallen aristocrat of Chile, explains her coffee companion cappuccino in her sensory memoirs like this: "my favorite is CAP-GRANDE-DECAF-SOY-NON-FAT-WET-CIN-CHOC, which means: a large cup of decaffeinated cappuccino, with skim soy milk, half milk and half foam, sprinkled with cinnamon and chocolate foam." But it's best not to tell it to the Italians, the inventor of Cappuccino, who will probably think it's nonsense.

After the married husband went to northern Europe, it was like walking into the rain of coffee beans all over the sky, and cafes of all sizes were everywhere. I even learned to make coffee and gradually fell in love with its taste: wake up with a cup of coffee in the morning and wake up. A cup of coffee in the morning soothes a slightly hungry stomach. A cup of coffee for afternoon tea, which is purely a pastime. Since it's a pastime, dessert with coffee is absolutely sloppy. Apple pie, blueberry pie, Tira Misu, cheese mums, a variety of small baked snacks, a wide range of names. If there is no delicious dessert, I'd rather not drink this afternoon coffee.

So at this time, especially when the summer days are long, at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun is just right, warm, reading or chatting with delicious snacks, bathing in the sun, enjoying a cup of coffee, and the cafe outside is a good place to go. who makes them have such delicious snacks?

The exciting effect of coffee comes from caffeine, so Mormons ban coffee. Countries that ban alcohol and other irritants, such as Islam, drink coffee fiercely. In the language class, there were many students from Iran who wore long headscarves and gathered together at recess, laying out their own baked snacks, talking and laughing with coffee and tea with added sugar, just like having a party at home.

Like the status of wine in Chinese dinners, coffee plays an important role at the European negotiating table. Wine is to get each other drunk, coffee is to keep yourself awake. I once believed in black coffee to lose weight, so for these words, I insisted on drinking only mellow black coffee for about half a year. Later, I really couldn't stand the irritation of the stomach and intestines. I learned that my husband added milk to the black coffee, 80% of the coffee and 20% of the milk. There are also many people who are used to adding sugar, but I always thought it was not as delicious as milk. First of all, the milk here is produced and sold by itself, which is of high grade, and secondly, the milk can neutralize some trace toxic elements in the coffee. If you add hand-baked dessert, the taste can be said to be wonderful.

The role of coffee is not only at a critical juncture, but also in ordinary life. If Europeans don't have that cup of coffee, it is estimated that friends and even girlfriends will also fail. The famous saying is: if you don't have a cup of coffee in the morning, you can't face life.

Excerpt from the French European Times, author: Luo Fu