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Coffee is a Universe

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Sacks of unroasted coffee seeds / Photo: Sila Blume

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Caffeine and around Caffeine / This common drug has not only a natural, but also a cultural versatility.

Coffea et Olfactum / …text….

Coffee Arts (Drawings and Paintings) / Coffee is mostly known as inspiration for writers and poets, also for many thinkers. It has however also inspired many visual artists. Here are some of my favorites.

Coffee and Culinary Investigations / Eating is one of the simplest things any living being may and must do, but behind most of the food humans eat, there is science. Some creative and investigative minds spend their whole lives with a scientific tongue. The ingredient coffee is never overlooked.

Coffee Discussions / One of the most important coffee activities during the last years has been the hundreds of coffee enthusiasts and professionals starting conversations and leading discussions about coffee. These very activities help towards an ever-increasing demand on coffee quality, be it the demand coming from those producing and selling it or from those drinking it.

Coffee Education & Training / Anyone who wishes a high-quality coffee drink at home will simply need patience and practice - the experience does come. There are however plenty of institutions and businesses sharing coffee knowledge on a professional level.

Counter Culture Coffee

Coffee Employment

Coffee Expertise / The world wide web provides a versatile and lively source of coffee information, shared by some of proven masters.

Coffee House Architecture / The art form connecting the most simple necessity of humans – living quarters functionality - with one of the most monumental and impressive forms of art is called architecture. This construction science has also contributed to the coffee culture and the drink has partly become unique because of the statement portrayed in these buildings, often called coffee houses.

Coffee Literature / A great deal of the meaning and culture behind a product is best exemplified by the way simple and educated minds alike tend to choose their words about it.

Coffee Mixology / Understanding brings consciousness, consciousness could lead to pleasure, pleasure to luxury. Understanding coffee drinking as a privilege is perhaps the highest level of appreciation. Appreciation is indispensable if luxury is to be more than a facade. There are several spirit combinations we could learn a lot from – not only through our palate.

Josef Rainer Shaker Manufakturer
The 12 Bottles - Cocktails and Mixology
Edinburgh Whisky Blog Taste and Words on Whiskey
Gintime History and Mixology
The Unusual Times Reviewing unsusal things and Hendrick’s Gin

Coffee Museums /

Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum (According to its website, the Museum is temporarily closed for redevelopment and/or possible relocation until 2009, but as of December 2010 has yet to reopen.)

Coffee News/Opinions / These links are important contributors in keeping the conversation going.

Coffee Nuts & Snacks / Nuts are highly important and entertainment food.

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Coffee Organisations / For cultural or scientific, educational or conservation purposes, many institutions and companies have organised themselves throughout the world – for coffee’s sake.

Coffee Pairing / An important source and vehicle of philosophy has been the world of alchemy. Experimenting with knowledge - also for the sake of the palate – is very much alive today.

Coffee Publications / Not only the internet is contributing to the coffee conversation. The traditional periodical forms are very active as well.

Coffee Science / Especially a coffee seed exemplifies well the high complexity of nature, thus giving plenty of space and reason for scientific studies and endeavours.

Coffee Sometimes / The world revolves and evolves not only around coffee. Many creative minds and mouths are regularly pleasing us with creations for the palate and sporadically use coffee as an ingredient.

Coffee Sustainability / The politics behind the production, handling and preparation of coffee must be based on respect and attention.

Coffee Sweet-Side-Effects / It is not very common to find coffee as an ingredient in savoury dishes, but the world of sweets has known its value for a long time and it has even contributed to a couple of classics. Here are some attractive sites dealing with the best sweet-side-effects of using coffee as a food ingredient

Coffee Tobacco Pairing / To main means of pleasure could be paired two ways. Either in the very traditional parallel enjoyment of drinking coffee while smoking tobacco, or in the more unusual manner of mixing pipe tobacco with oils of roasted coffee.

Coffee Travels – It cannot be expected that each coffee drinker knows and experiences first hand what it takes for a plant to produce the fruits leading to our well-beloved drink, and its lengthy arduous process. It is however wonderful that travelling could include a first-hand view into the natural world of coffee.

Coffee Video Tutorials / Another modern and important way to learn at home: audiovisuals.

Coffee Nate

Coffee to Wear / Carry

Coffee Wear

Coffee Weblogs / The amount of baristi (baristas) and other coffee enthusiasts worldwide has been growing immensely for one or two decades. Here is a short list of those sharing their passion in the world wide web.

Cooking and Baking Basics

Science of Cooking

Drama Elsewhere / Besides the joy, creativity and passion in the realms of eating and drinking, there are some views – some about the intellect, some about aesthetics – which I read and follow regularly.

The Sartorialist - Fashion
Think More Inc. - Design
Curious Cook - Food
Ideas in Food - Food
Food for Design - Food
A Cuban in London / Sunday Mornings: Coffee, Reflections and Music

Gastrosophy and Perception / Coffee - just like all foods and all drinks - is never only about the realm of the mouth, and not just about its physical effects.

American Stomach

National Coffee Days / Beginning with Japan, several countries have finally realised how evident it is to celebrate one of the most important, most loved and most needed products on the face of this earth.

Day of Coffee – Austria - October 1 (yearly, since 2002)
Day of Coffee – Germany - September 30, 2011 (each 4th friday in September yearly, since 2006)
Day of Coffee – Japan – October 1 (yearly, since 1983)
Day of Coffee – Switzerland - September 30, 2011 (each 4th friday in September yearly, since 2008)

Neighbouring Caffeine / Because caffeine is greatly responsible for the popularity and relevance of what coffee plants have been giving us for centuries, I find it important to embrace other quality products which equally depend on this substance.

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