... Coffee and music
The heavenly infusion was motive of inspiration for the great and everlasting music of the main representative of the German Musical Baroque, Johan Sebastian Bach.
" ... Ah how tasty is the sweety COFFEE, more lovely than thousand kisses more delicious than muscatel wine ..."
... Coffee tasters
Like many natural products coffee is subjected to evident changes of taste too, which alter the approval of consumers and buyers. To notify such imperfections, real experts were born with the aim to "taste" coffee.
In one day only, they are able (with a spoon of coffee without sugar between tongue and palate) to taste an incredible number of blends.
... Coffee surrogates
Being coffee a valuable product of high esteem, people did everything possible to find something, which might surrogate the consumption. Their aim was to find out pods, seed or roots, roasted, grounded and boiled in water, which had a taste similar to coffee.
New "types" of coffee were born: "Congo Coffee" made by beans, "German Coffee" made by chickpeas, "Indigena Coffee" made by rye and corn.
... "Coffeemancy"
Since centuries, has been believed that "reading" the coffee grounds was possible to get auspices and divinations on future events, life, love, affairs and death.
After tasting coffee, made according to the Arabian-Turkish way, you lean the cup upside down on the dish, so that the humidity still present inside of it- gives coffee grounds a casual position. You may help the positioning by turning the cup three times clockwise. When coffee grounds get dry, you can start the interpretation.
... Coffee tree
Coffee tree needs abundant rainfalls, regularly shared during the whole year.
In the nearest areas to the Equator, the intense sunny light may damage the development of cultivation, therefore as it's happening for cacao plants, coffee trees are protected by some other high trees, whose leaves serve as real umbrellas.
... Coffee disease
Like any other vegetal, coffee can be prey of disease, which may hurt roots, log, leaves or fruits.
Strong and violent epidemics in the past destroyed whole harvests, with incalculable damages for farmers and countries.
Nowadays the countries producers of coffee have learnt how to limit the consequences of coffee diseases, which once would have compromised the production of more crops.
... Exciting coffee
Among the nervine products, the coffee is one of the most important, because it wakes up physical and psychical perception, if taken in little dosage.
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