Talking about Coffee

The first coffee shop in Paris opened in 1668 and coffee was soon very popular.

Coffee is one of the biggest job sources in world economy, providing jobs for millions.

Coffee may come from the Ethiopian region of Kaffa, thus its name.

Thanks to the arrival of coffee in London alcohol consumption decreased. Coffee drove away the effects of alcohol as well as people from pubs.

In the first cafeteria of London there was a plate that read: "… The cherry called Coffea comes from the burning deserts of Arabia, where it is consumed at all hours of the day. This beverage livens the spirit and cheers the heart! It is very good for all illnesses of the eyes, suppresses headaches. It is excellent to cure neuralgia, tedium, and pulmonary cough. It impedes abortion. It cures hypochondria, is not laxative…" The place never was empty.

By the end of the XVI century, the Italian church fought against coffee urging Pope Clement VIII to ban "the beverage of Satan." Before deciding, the Pope wished to taste it and after the first sip exclaimed: "It would be a sin to let heathens have so delicious a beverage. Let us defeat Satan blessing this delicious beverage, that it may be a true Christian drink!"

Johann Sebastian Bach jokingly wrote a letter in the name of coffee; in 1732, the poet Picander wrote a comic text to it, and of this alliance came the famous Coffea Cantata.

The Arabic coffees are, without doubt the best coffees. These coffees are extremely aromatic.

On the shores of lake of Zurich, stands the Jacobs-Suchard museum founded in 1985. This museum is dedicated to the cult of coffee. It possesses a library of more than 3000 books of several works in different languages dedicated to coffee since the XVI century and a collection of paintings and engravings about coffee and everything about it. In addition to innumerable porcelain coffee pots and percolators.

Every year, more than 100 million sacks of coffee are produced. More than a third of the world's population drinks coffee with Finland being first (13 kg. of coffee a year per capita); followed by Sweden (12 kg. per year per capita); Norway (11 Kg.); Netherlands (8 kg.) In Scandinavia, they drink five cups of coffee each day.