You wake up in the morning, sit at your dining table, get a newspaper, eat your favorite breakfast and the most important of all you never will miss in a single day a drink of your favorite, hot, well blended coffee. The aroma, that sweet bitter taste, the satisfaction of drinking, what will your day be without coffee?, Truly the numbers of coffee lovers are astounding and did you know that coffee industry is the second most traded commodity in the world next to crude oil?, now that is surprising isn’t it? and even one of the most profitable businesses today. The history of coffee took a long route since its discovery way back from the 9th century, and since then it has become a natural part of our society. From coffeehouses of as early as 16th century it has evolved into our modern day Coffee shops and now lots of coffee shops offers services such as wireless connectivity to internet these places are called “Hot Spots” that is if you have a Wireless ready laptop or PDA you could surf the internet and retrieve Emails, this has been a friendly hangout place for those Internet savvy and Business professionals who loves a cup of delicious coffee beside them.
Given the Popularity of Coffee and the number of drinkers, the concern for health effects remains a challenge. Caffeine is a main substance in coffee and there were issues and conflicts regarding the effects of coffee in our body. There are reports and studies which relates coffee drinking to cardiovascular and heart problems but on the other and recently there are studies that concludes that coffee is harmless and that it is even beneficial to the body. To name some of the benefits; it’s a pain reliever, A study of 46,000 men who drinks 2-3 cups of coffee a day were 40% less likely to develop Gallstones an anomaly in the digestive system’s organ the gallbladder, it increases brain activity, and initial findings shows that caffeine lower the incidence of Parkinson’s disease. Truly drinking too much coffee may increase the health risk but on the contrary having too much of something is really bad. It’s just like having a glass of wine or whisky a day would help in the protection of the heart but drinking too much will destroy your liver.
Coffee never misses its part in restaurants, food houses, Bars and in any place we love to hang out and chat with friends. The rise in number of Coffee Shops and Café’s shows that it Coffee is one of a well loved commodity. You have your choices on how you want your coffee be prepared… Hot or Chilled. As of today there are lots of gourmet coffees mixes and Blends on which one can experiment with different food ingredients to create some very unique and delicious coffee mixes, For the Basics about Coffee, here are the common mixes and Blends; The espresso a very strong extract of coffee from beans, which is known as the real coffee, the Americano which is coffee with a 2/3 parts of water, the Latte is Coffee with 2/3 parts milk, Cappuccino is equal parts of Milk, Froth and Coffee wi th a dash of cinnamon, and mocha same as cappuccino but instead of cinnamon 1 part of chocolate syrup. To top this the variety of Coffee mixes and blends served either hot or cold and cocktail coffees continues to increase and some mixes has liquors to add a different twist. There is no wonder why lots of people LOVE coffee and we should expect that more mixes and blends will continue to be increase in variety to that will surely excite our taste and crave for more Coffee. What are you waiting for? get that cup and make some Coffee but don’t Drink too much. 
Cheers……
