Coffee break Can you imagine getting up in the morning without a coffee for breakfast?What is a good meal without a coffee at the end of it? Coffee is probably the world’s favourite drink, but most of us never give it a second thought. How much do you know about coffee?
The Turks gave us the word coffee and the Italians gave us espresso and cappuccino, but Finland is the biggest coffee-drinking country in the world. Coffee originally came from Ethiopia, but Colombia and Brazil arenow the most important coffee-producing countries.
There are more than 100 different varieties of coffee bean and Jamaican Blue Mountain is said to have the best taste. However, the mostexpensive coffee in the world (at $660/kilo) is Kopi Luwak. An Indonesian cat called Paradoxurus is especially fond of coffee beans and Kopi Luwak is made from its droppings!
We all know coffee addicts – people who can do nothing in the morning until their second or third cup of coffee.
The most famous coffee addictsin the world were probably the French writers Balzac (40 cups a day)and Voltaire (more than 50 cups a day). Beethoven was also a coffee lover – he always counted 60 beans for each cup of coffee that he made.The most fashionable coffee bars in the US now serve ‘coffee art’. Artistsin California draw leaves, hearts and other designs in your coffee