Monday, February 2, 2009

Know The Benefits Of Coffee

By John Purkis

First known discovery of coffee berries. Legend of goat herder Kaldi of Ethiopia who notices goats is friskier after eating red berries of a local shrub. Experiments with the berries himself and begins to feel happier. The coffee trees are cultivated on the Arabian Peninsula. Coffee is first roasted and boiled by Arabs making "qahwa" --- a beverage made from plants. The world's first coffee shop opens in Constantinople. It is followed by the establishment of two coffee houses in 1554.

The Arabs' fondness for the drink spread rapidly along trade routes, and Venetians had been introduced to coffee by 1600. In Europe as in Arabia, church and state officials frequently proscribed the new drink, identifying it with the often-liberal discussions conducted by coffee house habitus, but the institutions nonetheless prolifolited nowhere more so than in seventeenth-century London. The first coffee house opened there in 1652, and a large number of such establishments (caf; s) opened soon after on both the European continent (caf derives from the French term for coffee) and in North America, where they appeared in such Eastern cities as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia in the last decade of the seventeenth century.

Coffee is commercially prepared through vigorous extraction of almost all soluble material from ground roasted coffee beans. This process naturally produces a different mix of components than does conventional brewing.USES OF COFFEE: Fresh your breath. What to do when you're all out of breathe mints? Just suck on a coffee bean for a while and your mouth will smell clean and fresh again. Remove foul odor from hands. If your hands smell of garlic, fish or other strong foods you've been handling, a few coffee beans may be all you need to get rid of the odor. Put the beans in your hands and rub them together. The oil released from the coffee beans will absorb the foul smell. When the odor is gone, wash your hands in warm, soapy water.

Many people take exception to neighbors cats using their garden or yard as a toilet, a mixture of used coffee grounds and & orange peel put round plants and in beds you want left alone will provide a pungent smell that cats do not like and so will find someone else's garden to use. To get rid of ants put used coffee grounds onto the ant hills, this will have to be done for each hill as the pesky things will move to another home. Kitchen drains tend to get smelly, simply get a cup of coffee grounds and tip down the plughole making sure you tip a kettle of boiling water down slowly & leave to work on the odors. For a quick fix on fabrics soak garment in strong black un-sugared coffee, this is an inexpensive way to dye clothes brown in an emergency but remember it will not be color fast. Coffee grounds can be used to clean any stain resistant surface; it has a mild & gentle abrasive element & smells fresh too, particularly good for smelly ashtrays and greasy surfaces.

At present, 85 percent of Americans begin their day by making some form of the drink, and the average American will consume three cups of it over the course of the day. - 15252

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