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There comes a time when every coffee drinker needs to learn the essential facts that gloriously make coffee what it is today. These are those facts. Learn them and learn them well.
- Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the entire world – 60 billion dollars every year! The largest? Petroleum.
- Dorothy Jones, a Boston native, became the first American coffee trader after being issued her license to sell coffee in 1670.
- The Boston Tea Party of 1173 was planned in a coffee house named “The Green Dragon”.
- The coffee percolator was invented by James Mason in 1865. This did 2 important things: Laid the foundation for coffee makers we know and love today, and made coffee more readily accessible to the middle class.
- Specialty coffee houses began showing up in the 1970’s. The most famous of them all? Starbucks, established in Seattle in 1971 as a seller of freshly roasted beans and coffee equipment.
- The first instant coffee was invented in 1901 by a Japanese-American chemist, Satori Kato, in Chicago.
- Coffee is the most popular drink in America, aside from water.
- Coffee was originally eaten. African tribes mixed the coffee berries with fat and ate them.
- Hawaii is the only state in the United States that grows coffee.
- The King of England banned coffee houses in 1675. His reasoning? Coffee houses were where people met to conspire against him.
- Ethiopia is most likely the birth place of coffee.
- There are over 200,000 espresso bars in Italy today.
- The coffee filter was invented by a housewife in 1908, Melitta Bentz.
- Brazil is the world’s largest coffee producer today.
- Cappuccino is named after the Capuchin monks due to the similarity in color between the drink and the monk’s robes.
- If you ask for a latte in Italy, you’ll most likely get a glass of warm milk instead of coffee.
- Japan celebrates a national Coffee Day on October 1st.
- If you’re an expert at preparing Turkish Coffee, you are referred to as a kahveci.
- A coffee tree’s life span is between 60 and 70 years.
- Espresso surprisingly has 1/3 less caffeine content than a cup of regularly brewed coffee.
