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Coffee
Type Het or cauld drink
Pictur A small cup of coffee.JPG
A cup o coffee.
Makker Varied
Oreegin Ethiopia
First makkit Approx. 800 AD
Colour Dark broun/licht broun

Coffee is a brewed drink makkit fae roostit seeds, aften cried coffee beans, o the coffee plant. Caffeinatit coffee haes a stimulatin effect in fowk. The day, coffee is yin o the maist popular drinks worldwide.[1]

Coffee wis first consumed in the nint century, whan it wis foond in the hichlands o Ethiopia.[2] Fae thon, it spread tae Egypt an Yemen, an bi the 15t century, haed raxed Azerbaijan, Persia, Turkey, an northren Africae. Fae the Muslim warld, coffee spread tae Italy, then tae the rest o Europe, tae Indonesie, an tae the Americaes.

Coffee berries, which contain the coffee bean, is produced bi mony spece o wee evergreen bush o the genus Coffea. The twa maist commonly growed spece is Coffea canephora (also kent as Coffea robusta) an Coffea arabica. These are cultivated in Latin Americae, Soothaest Asie, an Africae. Yince ripe, coffee berries are picked, processed, an dried. The seeds are then roostit, unnergoin mony physeecal an chemeecal chynges. Thon are roostit tae varyin degrees, dependin on the desired flavor. They are then ground an brewed tae mak coffee. Coffee can be prepared an presentit in mony ways.


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  2. Mekete Belachew, "Coffee," in von Uhlig, Siegbert, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica (Weissbaden: Horrowitz, 2003), p.763.