Coffee: Possibly the Greatest Drink Ever
Created | Updated Apr 5, 2002
On the rising hills of Columbia, the fastest growing cash crop in the country is cultivated. This is the coffee bean. Straining water through a filter that contains grounds of the coffee bean makes coffee. Some drink their coffee with milk and sugar, others with cream and sugar, but everyone knows the only way to drink a cup of Joe is black with sugar.
Columbia is not the only country to produce fine grains of ambrosia. Madagascar, Java, Peru, Brazil, and Cuba are other arable lands that produce a usable ground. However, hands down the best producer of coffee plants is Puerto Rico. Yucua, the name of the plant, is grown on the mountains of the rainforest on the beautiful island. Rare and expensive, this is the coffee of choice not just for Puerto Ricans, but also for the Vatican. And the Pope, being infallible and all, knows his coffee.
Coffee can be used as a breakfast drink (or as just plain breakfast), with a luncheon snack, or for after-dinner with desert. Not only does it wake you up and keep you going, but the smell also invigorates the room that you are in. However, coffee does not have to be taken alone, there are a myriad of coffee snacks, which only enliven the experience. Croissants, doughnuts, coffee cakes, pirulings, coffee cookies, coffee brownies, and those Belgium wafer thingies all heighten the coffee drinking experience. And an experience it is, for one cannot just drink coffee. First one puts in the sugar (some here poison their coffee with milk or cream, but to each his own). Then you swirl and swirl until the grains are absorbed. Next, you inhale the steam stemming from the cup and softly blow on the coffee till it reaches a drinkable temperature. Slowly blowing as you lift the cup to your mouth, you quickly take a small sip, savor, swallow, smack your mouth and breath a sigh of satisfaction. Repeat when necessary.
Columbia is not the only country to produce fine grains of ambrosia. Madagascar, Java, Peru, Brazil, and Cuba are other arable lands that produce a usable ground. However, hands down the best producer of coffee plants is Puerto Rico. Yucua, the name of the plant, is grown on the mountains of the rainforest on the beautiful island. Rare and expensive, this is the coffee of choice not just for Puerto Ricans, but also for the Vatican. And the Pope, being infallible and all, knows his coffee.
Coffee can be used as a breakfast drink (or as just plain breakfast), with a luncheon snack, or for after-dinner with desert. Not only does it wake you up and keep you going, but the smell also invigorates the room that you are in. However, coffee does not have to be taken alone, there are a myriad of coffee snacks, which only enliven the experience. Croissants, doughnuts, coffee cakes, pirulings, coffee cookies, coffee brownies, and those Belgium wafer thingies all heighten the coffee drinking experience. And an experience it is, for one cannot just drink coffee. First one puts in the sugar (some here poison their coffee with milk or cream, but to each his own). Then you swirl and swirl until the grains are absorbed. Next, you inhale the steam stemming from the cup and softly blow on the coffee till it reaches a drinkable temperature. Slowly blowing as you lift the cup to your mouth, you quickly take a small sip, savor, swallow, smack your mouth and breath a sigh of satisfaction. Repeat when necessary.
