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The Coffee Bearer by John Frederick Lewis (1857) Kaffa kalid coffeepot, by French silversmith François-Thomas Germain, 1757, silver with ebony handle, Metropolitan Museum of Art. The history of coffee dates back centuries, first from its origin in Ethiopia and later in Yemen. It was already known in Mecca in the 15th century.
East German coffee mix, consisting of 51% coffee, produced due to shortages. The East German coffee crisis was a shortage of coffee in the late 1970s in East Germany caused by a poor harvest and unstable commodity prices, severely limiting the government's ability to buy coffee on the world markets. As a consequence, the East German government ...
This Melitta teapot was the model for the Utah teapot 3D rendering, a ubiquitous object in early computer graphics research. In 1908, Melitta Bentz, a 35-year-old woman from Dresden, Germany, invented the first coffee filter, receiving a patent registration for her "Filter Top Device lined with Filter Paper" from the Patent Office in Berlin on 8 July.
A Melitta coffee filter. 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.
In addition, an infamous new type of coffee was introduced, Mischkaffee (mixed coffee), which was 51% coffee and 49% a range of fillers, including chicory, rye, and sugar beet. [citation needed] Unsurprisingly, the new coffee was generally detested for its awful taste, and the whole episode is informally known as the "coffee crisis".
Throughout England and mainland Europe, with the exception of Germany, coffeehouses were a man's domain; the only women permitted were prostitutes. As a result, coffeehouses assumed much of the ...
Decaffeinated coffee was developed in 1903 (see Decaffeination: Roselius process) by a team of researchers led by Ludwig Roselius in Bremen, Germany. [2] [3] It was first sold in Germany and many other European countries in 1905–1906 under the name Kaffee HAG (short for Kaffee Handels-Aktien-Gesellschaft, or Coffee Trading Public Company). [4]
Germany’s historical reliance on Russian natural gas proved to be its Achilles heel in 2022. European energy prices were already rising when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine early that year pushed ...