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Machwitz Kaffee is a German family owned coffee brand and a coffee roasting company in Hanover, Germany. [1] Founded in Gdansk in 1883 as a consumer goods store. In 1919, the headquarter moved to Georgstrasse, Hanover as a specialty coffee shop. [1] Walter Koch (1911–1998), bought the company in 1948 [1] as a family business.
Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz (née Amalie Auguste Melitta Liebscher), best known as Melitta Bentz (January 31, 1873 – June 29, 1950), was a German inventor and entrepreneur known for revolutionizing the process of coffee brewing with her innovation of the coffee filter. This was an outstanding achievement that stemmed from her desire to make ...
Coffee is often regarded as one of the primary economic goods used in imperial control of trade. The colonised trade patterns in goods, such as slaves, coffee, and sugar, defined Brazilian trade for centuries. Coffee in culture or trade is a central theme and prominently referenced in poetry, fiction, and regional history. [citation needed]
She also mentions that, while few of the coffeecakes produced by our local bakeries would be recognizable in Germany, the ritual of eating coffee with cake does stem from German traditions. In ...
In the early 1900s, Ludwig Roselius, a German coffee merchant, discovered that when a freight of his coffee beans was soaked in salt water, it lost much of its caffeine. He founded Kaffee HAG, a ...
Initially, this new beverage was written in the English form coffee, but during the 1700s the Germans gradually adopted the French word café, then slowly changed the spelling to Kaffee, which is the present word. In the 18th century the popularity of coffee gradually spread around the German lands and was taken up by the ruling classes.
Much of the popularization of coffee is due to its cultivation in the Arab world, beginning in what is now Yemen, by Sufi monks in the 15th century. [2] Through thousands of Muslims pilgrimaging to Mecca, the enjoyment and harvesting of coffee, or the "wine of Araby" spread to other countries (e.g. Turkey, Egypt, Syria) and eventually to a majority of the world through the 16th century.
The Viennese coffee house (German: das Wiener Kaffeehaus, Bavarian: as Weana Kafeehaus) is a typical institution of Vienna that played an important part in shaping Viennese culture. Since October 2011 the "Viennese Coffee House Culture" is listed as " Intangible Cultural Heritage " in the Austrian inventory of the "National Agency for the ...