Coffee Factoid
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Coffee is Still Good For You
Posted by Jerry on 07 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Coffee Factoid, Coffee News
I thought I’d share an interesting article from the health section of the New York Times…
Sorting Out Coffee’s Contradictions
As with any product used to excess, consumers often wonder about the health consequences of caffeine.
Groovy Coffee Factoid #5
Posted by Jerry on 25 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Coffee Factoid
Groovy Coffee Factoid #4
Posted by Jerry on 03 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Factoid
In ancient Turkey, coffee was so important to society that the lack of sufficient coffee provided legal grounds for a woman to divorce her husband.
The coffee must flow!
Groovy Coffee Factoid #3
Posted by Jerry on 02 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Factoid
Before coffee was coffee, it was a tea.
When first discovered, the ancient Ethiopians boiled the leaves and berries of the coffee plant to make a tea.
They also used the berries to make a wine.
It wasn’t until the 16th century that someone figured out how to make the infusion from the roasted beans that we know today as coffee.
Groovy Coffee Factoid #2
Posted by Jerry on 28 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Factoid
Generally speaking, the people who harvest the coffee beans in the various nations where it’s grown, make barely enough money with a day’s labor to buy one cup of coffee in the USA.
On the upside, though, they get all their coffee for free. Now that’s what I call a perk!
(No pun intended.)
Groovy Coffee Factoid #1
Posted by Jerry on 16 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Factoid
Coffee is the second most valuable export commodity in the world, right behind oil.
Legal commodity, that is.
