Coffee Coffee Coffee!

If you're anything like me, you can't start the day without some freshly ground, just brewed coffee. At some point you need to buy a machine for home, as it's too much of a pain to wait until the coffee shop opens to get a cup of joe!
First things first: what NOT to EVER buy for a grind and brew coffee maker. The Cuisinart DGB-300 is the worst piece of kitchen appliance ever made. Mind you, there are not many grind and brew devices on that market anyway. We bought the Cuisinart and were happy for that first week with the coffee, but then the obvious flaws started to show itself...
Cleaning that big beast was a royal pain. It had 4 or 5 pieces that had to be removed and cleaned between each use! Another month later the automatic timer stopped working, and another month beyond that and it stopped working altogether. Call me crazy but I thought I just got a bad unit and ordered another one ... same results another $100 down the drain.

history of coffee

Coffee probably originated in the Ethiopian province of Kaffa, though there is controversy about its origins. The crop first became popular in Arabia around the 13th century, its popularity probably enhanced by Islam's prohibition against alcoholic beverages. Before 1600, coffee production was a jealously guarded secret, and fertile beans were not found outside Arabia. Sometime after 1600, coffee trees were grown in India, possibly due to smuggling of fertile beans. Around 1650, coffee importation into England began and coffeehouses opened in Oxford and London. Coffee planting began in the English colonies, but a disease wiped out the plantations, leading the English to re-plant them with tea instead. By the 18th century, the beverage had become popular in Europe, and European colonists had introduced coffee to tropical countries worldwide as a plantation crop to supply domestic demand. During the 19th century, European demand for coffee was so strong that when genuine coffee beans were scarce, people developed similar-tasting substitutes from various roasted vegetable substances, such as chicory root, dandelion root, acorns, or figs. For example, the British used acorns as a coffee substitute during World War II while German U-boats blockaded Britain. Today, the major coffee-producing regions are tropical South America (Colombia is famous for its coffee), Vietnam, Kenya, India,C e d'Ivoire, Sri Lanka and others. There is limited production of high-quality, high-price coffee in Hawaii. Major per-capita consumers of coffee are Canada, the United States, Germany, Austria, Italy and the Nordic countries.

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