|
|
Schuil Coffee Company was one of the first specialty coffee roasters in the United States. |
|
|
King Frederick of Germany had “coffee schnufflers” to chase down illicit coffee roasters. |
|
Louis XIV erected the first greenhouse for a coffee tree given to him by Dutch traders. |
|
Bach wrote a coffee cantata in 1732. |
|
After the Boston Tea Party, Americans switched to coffee to express their freedom. |
|
Cowboys made coffee by boiling it in a sock over their campfire. |
|
In Turkey, wives can legally divorce if their husbands don’t provide a daily coffee quota. |
|
An arabica coffee tree yields just one pound of specialty coffee per year. |
|
All coffee is grown within 1000 miles of the equator. |
|
Coffee is actually a fruit. |
|
Coffee is the most popular beverage in the world. |
|
Coffee is the second largest commodity traded on the world market; oil is the largest. |
|
|
|
|
|