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Coffee Cuisine

One of the characteristics of the coffee bean is that it ferments well. Fermentation is the process of making alcohol from organics with a high sugar content. The word "qahwa" in Arabic means wine. Qahwa is the origin of the word coffee. In Europe, coffee was called "the wine of Arabia." Fermenting the coffee berry is still done today in Ethiopia and some Arabian countries. It is not commonly known that the coffee berry can be fermented.

Monday, October 10, 2005

The Coffee Bean ©

We all know Coffee, the Master roasted beans of the coffee plant? Coffee or Coffea. The word "coffee" may have been derived from the Ethiopian "keffa" or the Turkish equivalent found in their word for coffea the word "qahveh." The Arabs still call the beverage "qahwa," meaning "strength."

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