Saturday, September 01, 2007
History of Coffee Beans
Believe it or not, people the world over enjoyed coffee before a certain Seattle establishment opened its first storefront. In fact, the history of coffee drinking is a history of social discourse.
What the little company with the cute name from Washington state did was introduce new generations to the world's favorite beverage. Coffee had been declining in popularity for a number of years. Chalk it up to inferior grades of coffee beans that proliferated from the 1950s on or to social revolution. The young people of the sixties hadn't embraced coffee drinking the way previous generations had. Rather than gather in diners for coffee, young people cruised the local hangout with paper cups of crushed ice and cola.
Read the complete article on the History of Coffee Beans.
What the little company with the cute name from Washington state did was introduce new generations to the world's favorite beverage. Coffee had been declining in popularity for a number of years. Chalk it up to inferior grades of coffee beans that proliferated from the 1950s on or to social revolution. The young people of the sixties hadn't embraced coffee drinking the way previous generations had. Rather than gather in diners for coffee, young people cruised the local hangout with paper cups of crushed ice and cola.
Read the complete article on the History of Coffee Beans.
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