European coffee culture

When Europeans first came into contact with coffee, they called this tempting drink "Arabica," and when conservative Catholics cursed coffee as "the drink of Satan," they never thought of what a precious thing they had inherited from "pagans."

Now Europe, coffee culture can be said to be a very mature cultural form, from coffee into this continent, to the emergence of Europe's first coffee shop, coffee culture with extremely rapid development, showing a very vigorous vitality.

In Vienna, Austria, coffee, music and waltz dance are called "Vienna Three Treasures", which shows the profound significance of coffee culture.

There is a famous Italian saying: "Men should be like good coffee, strong and full of enthusiasm!" How unusual it is to equate men with coffee.

Italians love coffee, coffee has become the most basic and important factor in their lives. The first thing Italians do when they wake up is brew a cup of coffee. Both men and women, coffee cups are almost always in hand from morning till night.

In France, without coffee is as incredible as without wine. It's almost the end of the world. It is said that there was a time in history when France was in a shortage of coffee, which led to many French people being listless all day, greatly affecting the normal life of the country. When the Gulf War broke out in 1991, French people worried that the war would affect their daily lives and rushed to supermarkets to buy goods. When TV reporters aimed their cameras at the people who were buying goods, the camera showed a large number of coffee and sugar cubes in the hands of customers, which was a joke for a while.

From the day coffee was introduced into France, the influence and shadow of coffee were always visible in French culture and art. From the beginning of the 17th century, in France, especially in the upper class of France, there appeared many cultural and artistic salons formed because of drinking coffee. In these salons, writers, artists and philosophers, inspired by coffee, stretch their imagination wings, create countless literary and artistic works, and leave a number of magnificent cultural treasures for the world.

French coffee is not about the quality and taste of coffee itself, but pay attention to the environment and mood of drinking coffee, showing elegant taste, romantic style and poetic realm, just like those exquisite and moving works of art in the Louvre.