In love with the taste of coffee

Author: Wang Yuling
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: In the rustling sound of the pages, it condenses the memories of coffee over millennia. The complete manual for coffee appreciation, the practical guide for coffee selection, the essential reading for coffee enthusiasts. Coffee is the gold of the ordinary people; like gold, it brings luxurious and noble enjoyment to everyone. Under the warm sunlight, wearing a loose robe, sitting in a comfortable armchair, drinking freshly brewed coffee—how comfortable and at ease it is. With a free-spirited green parrot and a vibrantly patterned carpet, the solemnity of the ancient holy communion fades away. I have measured the happiness of my life with the spoon of coffee.
To brew the ideal coffee, it should be as dark as the devil, as hot as hell, as pure as an angel, and as sweet as love. When you are troubled, when you encounter this or that kind of trouble, go to the café! Today, coffee and cafés are more marked by Western culture. A cup of dark, hot liquid has wandered across Europe and America for several centuries, filled with history and culture, and has now come to us. Whether intentionally or not, what is to come will inevitably come.
In fact, coffee was originally introduced to the European continent from elsewhere. The bitter drink beloved by the Arabs took Europeans hundreds of years to truly adapt to—it was the ancient mystical aura of the Middle East embedded in coffee that deeply attracted them. Today is no different. The innate curiosity about foreign cultures has made coffee a messenger of culture, a bridge connecting the ancient and the modern, the East and the West.
Coffee contains certain chemicals that invigorate those who drink it. Perhaps it is this fundamental effect that has made it inseparable from the development of social and human culture over the centuries. Brain cells activated by coffee might, without realizing it, compose beautiful music, write touching poems, paint exquisite landscapes, or even propose grand ideas about tracing the origins of humanity and transforming the real world.
Accompanied by either dim or bright light, opening a simple or complex menu, music and wisdom seem to "whiz" away. It’s a challenge—how to choose which cup? The expensive and classic single-origin, the popular and mild blend, or the often bewildering specialty? Some will throw out a cool, programmed answer: "Jamaican Blue Mountain, please," and say no more. Others will read from beginning to end and then flip back to the end, leaving the waiter to make the decision. But whether it’s one or the other, for coffee’s...