What is Coffee?
Answer:
Coffee is one of the world’s great hot drinks. 
This dark brown, almost opaque liquid is made from brewing the crushed seeds (coffee berries) of a coffee plant.  Coffee plants are large bushy plants, and the coffee beans grow along the stem of the plant as the result of fertilized flowers. 

Coffee plants originally came from Africa sometime during the mid to late first millennia CE.  It spread to the Middle East (Arabia, traditionally), then to India, Turkey and soon after Europe.  It is now drunk around the world and is also cultivated in many parts of the world.  Coffees from different parts of the world boast different flavors, acidity and body (how the liquid feels in the mouth).

In the long history of coffee consumption, there are a number of ways it is prepared and drunk.  In the West, it is brewed and drunk much like tea – served without coffee grounds and with cream and sugar.  In Turkey, ground, boiled with large amounts of sugar, and meant to be drunk immediately while the grounds are still suspended in the liquid.  Espresso is prepared not by immersing grounds in water, but by forcing not quite boiling water through grounds under high pressure.

 
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