Loves only coffee

Author: Mo Fei
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: When cafes and "freshly ground and brewed coffee" become fashionable, I have often heard or seen stylish men and women describe their love for coffee or their sense of taste like this: "I only drink black coffee." The more bitter, the more I like it. Unbeknownst to them, coffee is after all not wormwood; bitterness is never the original intention of good coffee. Bitterness is used as a backdrop, to highlight the aroma and sweetness of good coffee. In this era, in the country we live in, coffee has become a fashionable item or, to be precise, a trendy thing as an "imported product." Whether the term "imported product" is entirely accurate when referring to coffee is debatable, but in itself, it is a transitional and temporary term. If we look back at world history, we will find that all civilizations across the world have interacted with each other in various ways throughout their history, meaning that "importation" has been constantly ongoing. Just like in the 18th century, the tables of French aristocrats were not only adorned with Bordeaux wine but also featured tobacco from the Arab world, porcelain from Japan, hemp from India, caviar from Russia, of course, and coffee from Africa and South America. People will repeatedly emphasize the variety, origin, and heritage of something because this is part of what is "taste," or perhaps one of the indicators for achieving a sense of taste.