I thought I’d share an interesting article from the health section of the New York Times…
Category Archives: Coffee Factoid
Groovy Coffee Factoid #5
Finland has the highest coffee consumption per capita in the world.
Groovy Coffee Factoid #4
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
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
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
Coffee is the second most valuable export commodity in the world, right behind oil.
Legal commodity, that is.