Spitting out the parchment, I finally get the two beans, which are covered by a diaphanous silver skin. Like peanuts, coffee beans usually grow in facing pairs. It takes a bit of tongue work to get down to the tough-skinned parchment protecting each bean. I pop the skin of a ripe coffee cherry open in my mouth and savor the sweet mucilage. As Herman, my caporal (supervisor), requested, I try to pick only the rich red cherries, but sometimes I accidentally knock loose a green one. My basket, or canasta, is tied around my waist. Picking coffee berries (known as cherries) for the first time, I struggle to keep my balance on the precipitous hillside. Anthony Capella, The Various Flavors of Coffee (2008)
A man could become addicted to that smell, as quick as any opium. It was a smell halfway between mouth-watering and eye-watering, a smell as dark as burning pitch a bitter, black, beguiling perfume that caught at the back of the throat, filling the nostrils and the brain. The smell of roasting coffee hit me like a waft of spice. Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case (1995) The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself. To the memories of Alfred Peet (1920-2007), coffee curmudgeon supreme, and Ernesto Illy (1925-2008), espresso master This detailed engraving was one of the first accurate portrayals of the exotic coffee plant, published in 1716 in Voyage de l’Arabie Heureuse Turf Battles over Politically Correct Coffee
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