http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com Instant coffee bears little resemblance in taste to freshly brewed coffee. It is commonly made with inferior ‘robusta’ beans. It is the product of a complex scientific process, yet we British love it. It may be convenient, but do we actually know... http://www.articlealley.com/article_533478_26.html 08th May 2008 Speciality coffee by its nature is fairly traded. Rather than being treated as a commodity on the futures market, it is traded on its quality, which in turn demands a premium price for the farmer. For example, in May 2006 ‘Hacienda la Esmeralda Geisha... http://www.articlealley.com/article_246845_26.html 14th November 2007 Caffeine is only one of several hundred chemicals found in coffee. However it is the most notorious because of the many physiological affects it has on the human body. Caffeine naturally occurs in many other plants apart from the coffee bush, such as te... http://www.articlealley.com/article_35903_26.html 14th March 2006 Cafetieres are probably the most commonly used method of brewing coffee. Many coffee lovers swear on the fact that the cafetiere is the best method, as it preserves the delicate flavours in the oils, giving a smooth, rich bodied coffee. The exact hi... http://www.articlealley.com/article_33856_26.html 07th March 2006 The story of the stove-top espresso maker begins in 1918, when Alfonso Bialetti returned to his native Italy from France, where he had worked in the aluminium industry, to start a small workshop manufacturing metal household goods. The actual idea fo... http://www.articlealley.com/article_32625_26.html 05th March 2006 Coffee is a plant. However, before it can be drunk it must pass through a number of stages and travel thousands of miles. Coffee beans come from the red cherries of the coffea bush. Each cherry usually contains two seeds, or coffee beans. The exce... http://www.articlealley.com/article_31789_26.html 24th February 2006 With the large multi-national coffee companies focused purely on coffee as a commodity rather then a drink to be savoured, it allowed a new sector to emerge in the coffee industry: Speciality Coffee. Speciality coffee was nothing new, rather the opposite... http://www.articlealley.com/article_31243_26.html 22nd February 2006 By the 17th Century, with the popularity of coffee ever increasing in Europe, the interest of the then World Superpowers - Britain, France, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain - also grew. Up until this point, coffee imported into Europe had come from the Ar... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29992_26.html 16th February 2006 For many connoisseurs, the period from the mid-19th Century to the late 20th Century is the 'Dark Age' of coffee. During this era, coffee lost its Middle-Eastern mystical charm and became commercialised and, quite frankly, ordinary. When coffee was fi... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29351_26.html 15th February 2006 The coffee plant originates from the highland forests of Ethiopia. It is believed that the first plants were found growing wild in the region of Kaffa, where coffee derives its name from. A popular legend tells of a goat herder named Kaldi. One day he ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_25605_26.html 27th January 2006 It was not until 1615, that Europe was formally introduced to coffee. Venetian traders, who had strong trade links with the Levant (historical term referring to a large area of the Middle East incorporating the countries of: Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and S... http://www.articlealley.com/article_25604_26.html 27th January 2006