The legend of coffee, the story of the shepherd.

The Legend of Coffee

There are several legends about the origin of coffee, among which the most familiar is the story of the shepherd: About 600 AD, there is a shepherd, found that his flock every night will be unusually excited to cry, he was frightened, to the priest of the monastery for help, the priest carefully observed the flock after a few days, found that the flock is eating an unknown fruit, the priest himself ate a little, found that this fruit can be exciting, since then the priest will be this fruit called "to remove sleep, clean the soul of the sacred goods", coffee has become medicine, Food and drink. Coffee was spread by a Muslim exiled to Yemen for crime in 1200 AD. From its origin to the Red Sea to Athens, Cairo, Iran in 1300, and Turkey in about 1500, coffee gradually became a popular drink.

As for coffee shops, legend has it that they originated in Mecca. Around the 17th century, coffee was gradually popular in Italy, India, Britain and other places through trade routes.

Around 1650, Oxford, England, saw the first coffee shop in Western Europe to smell all day long.

During the Renaissance Movement in 1605, some Christians believed that coffee was a pagan drink, called coffee "Satan's drink", and asked the Pope at that time to order the ban on believers to drink, but after drinking the "devil's drink", the Pope marveled that there was such a delicious drink on earth, so he arranged a baptism to officially define coffee as a Christian drink, so that coffee was extended 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 belonging to the Capsicum family. Coffee for daily drinking is made from coffee beans with various cooking appliances. Coffee beans refer to the nuts in the fruit of coffee tree, which are roasted by appropriate roasting methods.

Coffee epic

Espresso with smoke rings in the coffee house, a cup of warm black serum handed over by a friend in the winter afternoon, or even a cup of warm instant coffee quietly released along the messy desk on busy days, every day, all kinds of people, in different corners of the world, waiting for a cup of good coffee.

People who are addicted to coffee can never imagine how to spend winter without coffee heating. Even non-coffee drinkers can smell the coffee that inspired them in the works of many coffee-drinking writers and artists: Beethoven's music, Picasso's paintings, Murakami's words.

For centuries, coffee has changed history in one of the most sinkable, gentle, yet defenseless ways.

In coffee, find the way to fly.

Legend has it that the earliest coffee trees in the world appeared around the 10th century in the high-ripening mountains of Ethiopia. In the dry season away from home wandering shepherd kardi, suddenly found that the sheep in eating a wild bush fruit, become more active than usual noisy, he curiously picked some fruit to taste, unexpectedly happy to dance on the grassland.

He distributed the fruit he had gathered to the monks of the monastery, often helping them to stay awake during long evening prayers. Stories about magical fruits soon spread far and wide as nomadic peoples wandered. From then on, ground coffee fruit, mixed with animal fat into hard lumps, as an energy-enhancing snack, became their journey after journey, lonely and bumpy nomadic life, a kind of addiction can not be quit. Some even say that the earliest coffees, the coffee-skinned Ethiopian women, had learned to brew from fermented coffee berries.

It seems that from the beginning, people have found the way to fly in the heart from coffee.

--From the Middle East, Burning the World's First Cup of Coffee

It is believed that the first cup of coffee in the world was carefully brewed by Arabs. Many oral accounts of European travelers at the end of the sixteenth century describe Arabs sipping black molasses boiled from black seeds, confirming that Arabs knew how to roast coffee and brand it with the hot marks of fire in the thirteenth century long before Europeans embraced coffee.

From the first cup of mellow coffee, after 200 years of circulation, in 1530, the world's first coffee house was finally born in Damascus in the Middle East...

Coffee entered Europe in 1615 with the Venetian merchants who traveled. The French and Italians went crazy over it. They wrote books, wrote poems and even fought wars about it. As the Vienna proverb says,"Europeans can stop Turkish bows and knives, but they cannot stop Turkish coffee." They burn war just to brew a good cup of coffee in the beacon light.

- Coffee, swinging between angel wings and devil's fall

When coffee first arrived in Italy, many conservative clerics suggested that it should be expelled, so Pope Clement VIII decided to taste it himself. After sipping a devilish black liquid from his warm cup, he couldn't help but say,"Let coffee be baptized into God's drink!"

To this day, in many people's minds, coffee still swings between the wings of angels and the fall of demons.

In 1654, Europe's first café appeared on the streets of Venice. Decades later, the release of fragrance coffee shop signs, have been lit in London, Paris, Vienna, in CoCo Chanel, Gianni Versace popular myth before the invasion of the European window modification, coffee house with a most unobtrusive posture, quietly swept the world.

From then on, we entered the coffee house era. Buried deep in the memory of his father and brother, that period of coffee and literature mutually feeding golden years, kicked off.

long history

If the origins of coffee can be traced back to ancient African and Arab cultures, then today's coffee shop is a purely European culture, or more accurately, it is even a cradle of modern European civilization.

Pure European cultural product

Venice in 1645 saw the birth of Europe's first open street cafe. Paris and Vienna followed suit, with relaxed romantic French sentiment and Viennese literati temperament each occupying a grid, becoming the forerunner of the two major trends in European cafes in the future.

The embodiment of the life form of the upper class society

The café brought the formerly closed saloon life of the upper classes to the streets, and in many cities it was the first public social place where citizens could meet freely. Here people read newspapers, debate, play cards, play billiards…The famous "cafe writer" claimed that his lifelong career was first a cafe frequenter, then a writer, and that he did not go to the cafe for coffee, but as a way of being. From Rousseau, Voltaire to many famous literati at that time, they all had their own coffee houses for regular gatherings. For example, Dickens, the founder of realistic novels, Balzac and Zola, Picasso, Freud, the master of psychoanalysis, and a series of brilliant names have written hundreds of years of cultural development history in modern Europe in the frequent visitors 'books of different cafes.

Coffee and Mood

Do you want a cup of coffee when you're in a good mood or when you're in a bad mood? Everyone's answer is different, but because coffee is a drink when you are in a good mood, you can only taste the mellow taste of coffee when you are in a good mood and want to see the blue sky and the gentle sunshine. You should go to a bar when you're in a bad mood. Lazy jazz, thrilling opera, romantic French chants or soft piano playing in cafes are the music you hear most often. Of course it has to do with the coffee shop owner's taste. You can chat with close friends or confidants to discuss topics of interest to each other. As time goes by, you will find that your mood gradually calms down, and even some are moved. All the reasons are very simple: casual.

Have a cup of coffee when you're feeling good today, and you'll see the best in coffee.

Coffee Spirit

Anyone who has ever drunk coffee knows that coffee is bitter, and many people think it tastes bad. So they sweeten their coffee. Because sweetened coffee has a sweet taste, it is easier to drink and sweeter to taste. But unsweetened coffee is good. It may taste bitter on the palate, but on the aftertaste, coffee without sugar is like diamond without dressing. Nature shines brightly, in which you will understand the true sweetness of suffering; you will appreciate the combination of life and nature. Too much coffee without sugar is like human life, bitter after alcohol and quiet sweet, restlessness after calm enjoyment, patience after a broad sky. So, don't sugar coffee, don't let yourself indulge in sweetness, don't give yourself the opportunity to bow to suffering, don't let yourself bow to difficulties.

Cafe Story

Coffee house regulars come from the whole broad "leisure class", from different walks of life, looking for fun and confidante in various cafes and smoke. Gentleman's Cafe, Painter's Cafe, Journalist's Cafe, Music Cafe, College Student's Cafe, Parliamentarian's Cafe, Worker's Cafe, Actor's Cafe, Psychologist's Cafe, etc., all have their own atmosphere and style. Or so it may be said, coffeehouses-witness to the history of European civilization...

Put your mood in a 100% coffee cup

A variety of coffee cups, is a sea of mood, you can listen to the sound of their own heart fluctuations.

Some people say that a cup of coffee fosters a cup of mood, and a variety of coffee cups, like an ocean of mood, ups and downs of people churning diverse emotions.

How many cups do you have in your collection? Have you ever been alone in the night, drinking warm coffee while listening to the sound of your own heart? What else can you read from this cup of coffee except the mood of coffee?

Dependency Complex of Coffee VS Cup size

In many cases, the size of the coffee cup can be used to roughly judge the strength of a cup of coffee.

The size of coffee cups is generally divided into three types:

* Small coffee cups below 100CC-mostly used to hold strong hot Italian or single coffee, for example, only about 50CC Espresso, although almost a mouthful can be drunk, but lingering mellow aftertaste, and seems to always warm the temperature, but the most warm mood and gastrointestinal. Cappuccino with milk foam has a slightly larger capacity than Espresso, and a wide cup mouth that can display rich and beautiful foam.

* About 200CC general coffee cup-the most common coffee cup, light American coffee more choice of such a cup, there is enough space, you can mix, add creamer and sugar.

* More than 300CC mug or French Oulei special milk coffee cup-add a lot of milk coffee, like latte, American mocha, multi-use mug, enough to accommodate its sweet and diverse taste. The romantic French, however, habitually use a large bowl of milk coffee (Oulei coffee) to render a happy mood that lasts all morning.

Judging from the shape and size of tea cups and coffee cups, there are still traces to follow.

Usually, in order to retain the rich aroma of coffee and reduce temperature evaporation, coffee cups are narrower and thicker. The red cup is mostly wider mouth, high transmittance, to reflect the clarity and transparency of brown.

Pottery and Porcelain, Simple VS Elegant Ultimate Dialogue

The simplicity of pottery and the roundness of porcelain each tell different coffee comments. Some people like to use thick texture ceramic cup, full of masculine strong deep roast coffee, but most people still commonly use porcelain cup, interpretation of coffee delicate fragrance.

Among them, bone china made of high-grade porcelain clay and mixed animal bone powder is light in texture, soft in color, and high in heat preservation, which can best retain the warm memory of coffee.

Put coffee in a cup at the right temperature

Warm mood, of course, to use warm cups to dress.

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

The easiest way to warm a cup at home is to pour it directly into hot water or put it in a dish dryer to warm it up beforehand. If you entertain a table of guests at the same time, you can boil a pot of water and immerse all the cups together.

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

Fine Archives of Bone China

* Composition-25% bone powder mixed with 75% high-grade porcelain clay.

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

* Select the way to distinguish-yellow color under the light, beating when there is a crisp metal sound.

* Maintenance rules-it is best to wash by hand, less users can use the dishwasher. The pH value of the lotion must be between 11-11.5. When washing in the dishwasher, the water temperature should not exceed 70 ° C. When washing with clean water, it should not exceed 80 ° C. It should be noted that the hot cup should not be directly immersed in cold water to avoid rapid temperature changes.

Coffee beans next door to Oracle Dictionary

Only drink three or four cups of espresso a day, so keep the full flavor of love. But I often buy too many cans of coffee beans because I like the polished metallic color of the cans, I like the tropical sound of the sand in the cans, and I like to imagine them waiting quietly. Waiting for the fragrance that does not flow out easily, waiting for a coffee extractor with a head, a pair of gentle and affectionate hands, a cup plate of famous bone china, a small circle of mahogany, a romantic cup posture.

Playing with roasted coffee beans, thinking it was a bit of a fetish pervert. And I can't bear to sacrifice a coffee bean just to watch it. The coffee beans with chocolate oil on the skin, after biting open, half stay in the mouth to chew, half stay in the hand to watch, there is a fragrance in the mouth, so that I feel quiet down, memory leads to distant years, carefully distinguish her taste in history. Even the sweet and bitter fragrance is only a memory that imagines itself, and does not belong to this life. The half left in the hand, the baked bean body looks like chocolate-flavored Haagen-Dazs.

I also like to occasionally inspect the coffee beans on the lower shelf of the thick Spanish pine bookshelf next to the Jiafengwen Dictionary. A row of silver-white tin cans, her connotation is better than Morocco small customs leather cover Proust à la recherche du temperps perdu "Remembrance of the past" to trace back to the golden years.

Rich coffee beans like me, like cool and sweet air. In this humid South