There are many ways to jumpstart a day. You can go and stand under a cold shower, have someone yell at you as if they were asking someone to send breakfast from a country which is millions of miles away….or you can walk like a zombie, doing your work with half baked concentration… mistaking your shaving cream for a tooth paste… or you could drink a cup of strong coffee.
However, these days coffee is not simply something that clears the mental cobwebs and gives people a bright eye and the courage to face another day. Coffee has become more than an emergency standby. It is now the beverage to be consumed many times in the course of a day.
Coffee when you wake up, coffee when you arrive to work, coffee during the first break, and another cup with lunch. And on and on it goes. Coffee all the time!!! Sometimes, it is justified too. If you have attended meetings, you know what it means. If you are in the speaker's position you need to be alert and not start yawning halfway through the presentation, coffee helps. If you are the audience and you sit there wishing you were a hundred miles away, fishing perhaps, and then coffee can provide that facade of alertness that makes everyone think you are really paying attention. In short, no matter what the occasion or need is, coffee has become a good old standby.
Over the last decade, you may have noticed something a little bit different. Your favorite coffee shop is now referring to itself as a café and the person serving you coffee is now referred to as a barista. Also, your simple order of a medium double has now become far more complicated. Between learning some basic Italian to order a drink that was once known as large, medium, or small, and between having to pick through a number of different coffee drinks with funny names, it can be a bit tough buying coffee.
Drinks like the cappuccino have become all the rage among coffee lovers and for good reason – the cappuccino is a sweet drink. Originating from Italy, the cappuccino has a sweet, smooth taste that is irresistible. A European staple, the cappuccino has burned itself into the Indian consciousness in the late 1990s due to its availability in specialty coffee bar chains like Barista or Café Coffee Day. Now, even McDonald’s is serving this delicious confection.
However, these days coffee is not simply something that clears the mental cobwebs and gives people a bright eye and the courage to face another day. Coffee has become more than an emergency standby. It is now the beverage to be consumed many times in the course of a day.
Coffee when you wake up, coffee when you arrive to work, coffee during the first break, and another cup with lunch. And on and on it goes. Coffee all the time!!! Sometimes, it is justified too. If you have attended meetings, you know what it means. If you are in the speaker's position you need to be alert and not start yawning halfway through the presentation, coffee helps. If you are the audience and you sit there wishing you were a hundred miles away, fishing perhaps, and then coffee can provide that facade of alertness that makes everyone think you are really paying attention. In short, no matter what the occasion or need is, coffee has become a good old standby.
Over the last decade, you may have noticed something a little bit different. Your favorite coffee shop is now referring to itself as a café and the person serving you coffee is now referred to as a barista. Also, your simple order of a medium double has now become far more complicated. Between learning some basic Italian to order a drink that was once known as large, medium, or small, and between having to pick through a number of different coffee drinks with funny names, it can be a bit tough buying coffee.
Drinks like the cappuccino have become all the rage among coffee lovers and for good reason – the cappuccino is a sweet drink. Originating from Italy, the cappuccino has a sweet, smooth taste that is irresistible. A European staple, the cappuccino has burned itself into the Indian consciousness in the late 1990s due to its availability in specialty coffee bar chains like Barista or Café Coffee Day. Now, even McDonald’s is serving this delicious confection.
The trendy ‘Coffee-world’ has probably been a real long evolution process but something which didn’t take that long to be recognized. Do you remember a time when coffee was served black with sugar on the side, no cream, flavors or any other such fancy alterations? Coffee was meant to give you with a good dose of energy and nothing else. Those small cups are still used to serve black coffee which is called espresso. Over the years a desire to enjoy the magic drink of coffee evolved into a desire for more than just the small espresso cup. People began to use larger cups and mugs to desire the quantity they desired.
Well… that was not the only thing that changed. In order to add color to that magic cup of coffee in our lives people started experimenting with different ingredients. This was the beginning of a whole new specialty coffee… a trendsetter.
Cappuccino, cafe latte, mochas, macchiato and all other coffee drinks that are different than the original black coffee are specialty coffee types. There are many different types of coffee creations like cinnamon, chocolate, hazelnut, caramel and vanilla flavored coffee… all this only to name a few. Only your imagination limits what you can invent as your own specialty coffee. You can put in anything you desire your coffee to taste like.
Does the experience of specialty coffee diminish over time? Not at all and if anything, it enhances the coffee experience by adding the extra spice or flavor for your enjoyment. Many people simply cannot have coffee just by itself. They find it too strong and overpowering thus, a bit of flavor helps them to enjoy a cup of coffee as well.
Regardless of how you take your coffee, black or with cream, flavored or plain, a cappuccino or a cafe latte, you have to admit that this wonderful drink has only improved our lives with its rich aromas and taste… morning, evening and night, whenever you desire. You do not have to have a day without coffee.
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