Espresso or Long coffee: What do you prefer drinking?
By Opteron
@Opteron (1842)
Italy
February 13, 2007 8:30am CST
Coffee is a widely consumed beverage prepared from the roasted seeds—commonly referred to as beans—of the coffee plant.
It is usually served hot but can also be served cold. A typical 7 fluid ounce cup of coffee contains 80–140 milligrams of caffeine, depending on the method of preparation.
Coffee represents 71% of all the United States caffeine consumption followed by soft drinks and tea.
Coffee, along with tea and water, is one of the most frequently-drunk beverages, its volume amounting to about a third that of tap water in North America and Europe.
This is the definition from wikipedia of coffee.
Anyway, I am italian. I love to travel in the world.
I have been in many other countries...but I never found a good coffee like the italian one.
I often found in restaurant and bar that coffee outside Italy that for coffee people means a long drink...40 cc of a brown liquid...that isn't really coffee...maybe only brown boiled water :-(
(for example in Germany or in France or in UK or Russia. I tried USA coffee too...and I am sorry to admit that it is not so good)
Why can't people do coffee as it should be done? Maybe people doesn't like short coffee? I think it's very much better the shorter one and not a long drink! It must taste good and it must wake you up :-).
Italians know really well how to do coffe and I think (without offending anyone of course) that our coffee is the best. (Maybe some arabian can do it good too...never been there)
I don't say this only because I am italian...you all should try it (if you live outside Italy).
If you are thinking about coming here in Italy, I want to suggest you a city city where to drink a really good coffee that tastes good: Naples!!
Not all in Italy can do coffee...for example in Turin they can't do as good as in Naples!
I live in a little town down naples...and I do a short coffee....really good. I prefer taking it with two teaspoon of sugar!
Do you like coffee? What do you prefer? An italian short an creamy coffee or a long drink coffee?
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@pelo26 (1552)
• Philippines
16 Apr 07
A shot of espresso really wakes me up but have you heard and tried Barako Coffee? It's the best coffee we have here. A bit of history for you...
Philippine Coffee & Barako Coffee History
Coffee was brought in the Philippines centuries ago by the Spaniards while the country was a colony. They planted coffee trees on the highlands. And because of good combination of humidity, cold, soil and the tropical climate, these plantation flourished. By the 19th century, the Philippines was the 4th largest coffee producing country in the world.
Barako coffee is the Philippine term for coffee produced in Batangas. This Philippine coffee is of the Liberica variety. Liberica is rare and exotic, grown only in 3 countries out of about 70 coffee producing countries in the world. The first Barako tree was a a cutting from Brazil planted in the 1800s in Barangay Pinagtung-Ulan, Batangas by the Macasaet family. Barako coffee has strong taste, flavor, and has a distinctively pungent aroma. All coffee grown in Batangas is generically called Barako.
During this golden times of coffee production in the Philippines, the town of Lipa in Batangas flourished and many plantation owners became millionaires. In 1887, Spain's Queen Isabela elevated the town of Lipa into a city named it Villa de Lipa owing to its prosperity. Lipa became one of the richest cities in the Philippines during the coffee boom.
Today, there are only a handful of Barako trees and is in the brink of extinction. The title "coffee capital" of the Philippines has also shifted from Batangas to the town of Amadeo in Cavite province. The decline of coffee industry in the Philippines stated when crops were plagued by "Coffee Rust" an infestation the almost wiped out the Philippine coffee industry. And South American countries took over to satisfy the world demand for coffee. In recent years, this was aggravated by the flooding of Vietnam with cheap coffee which made the world prices collapse even further. Even today, world prices of coffee is a fraction of the prices during the boom years.
The recent world wide popularity of special brews and exotic blends of coffee gives a sliver of hope to the Philippine coffee industry. This new trend might be the breath of life that the Philippine coffee industry needs to savour once again the taste of Barako coffee's golden years.
