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Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It has the highest sales in the world market for hot drinks.

The seeds of the Coffea plant's fruits are separated to produce unroasted green coffee beans. The beans are roasted and then ground into fine particles typically steeped in hot water before being filtered out, producing a cup of coffee. It is usually served hot, although chilled or iced coffee is common. Coffee can be prepared and presented in a variety of ways (e.g., espresso, French press, caffè latte, or already-brewed canned coffee). Sugar, sugar substitutes, milk, and cream are often added to mask the bitter taste or enhance the flavor.

Though coffee is now a global commodity, it has a long history tied closely to food traditions around the Red Sea. The earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking as the modern beverage appears in modern-day Yemen in southern Arabia in the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines, where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed in a manner similar to how it is now prepared for drinking. The coffee beans were procured by the Yemenis from the Ethiopian Highlands via coastal Somali intermediaries, and cultivated in Yemen. By the 16th century, the drink had reached the rest of the Middle East and North Africa, later spreading to Europe. (Full article...)

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Wiener Melange

A Wiener Melange (German for "Viennese Blend") is a specialty coffee drink similar to a cappuccino. The difference is sometimes assumed to be that the Melange is made with milder coffee, but the Viennese coffee company Julius Meinl describes a Wiener Melange as "One small espresso served in a large cup of coffee. Foam from steamed milk is often used.

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... that in 2004, AIBES (Associazione Italiana Barman e Sostenitori), recognized moretta (a typical hot coffee from Fano, Italy) as an official cocktail?

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The following are images from various coffee-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Coffee house culture between Vienna and Trieste: the coffee, the newspaper, the glass of water and the marble tabletop (from History of coffee)
Image 2A 1652 handbill advertising coffee for sale in St. Michael's Alley, London (from History of coffee)
Image 3Caffè San Marco in Trieste, known for its artists, writers and intellectuals (2014) (from Coffee culture)
Image 4Pope Clement VIII: The Pope who popularised coffee in Europe among Christians (from History of coffee)
Image 5A coffeehouse in Damascus (2003) (from Coffee culture)
Image 6Central European Habsburg coffee house culture: news, coffee, the glass of water and the marble table top (2004) (from Coffee culture)
Image 7Coffee break in Belgrade (2013) (from Coffee culture)
Image 8Monsooned Malabar arabica, compared with green Yirgachefe beans from Ethiopia (from History of coffee)
Image 9Les Deux Magots in Paris, once a famous haunt of French intellectuals (2006) (from Coffee culture)
Image 10Dutch engraving of Mocha in 1692 (from History of coffee)
Image 11A coffee shop at a library in Melbourne (2006) (from Coffee culture)
Image 12Caffè Florian in Venice (2015) (from Coffee culture)
Image 13A cup of coffee with cheesecake at a cafe in Helsinki, Finland (from Coffee culture)
Image 1418th century French plan of Mocha, Yemen. The Somali, Jewish and European quarters are located outside the citadel. The Dutch, English, Turkish and French trading posts are inside the city walls. (from History of coffee)
Image 15The Coffee Bearer by John Frederick Lewis (1857) (from History of coffee)
Image 16Coffeepot (cafetière "campanienne"), part of a service, 1836, hard-paste porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
Image 17Syrian Bedouin from a beehive village in Aleppo, Syria, sipping the traditional murra (bitter) coffee, 1930 (from History of coffee)
Image 18A coffee bearer, from the Ottoman quarters in Cairo (1857) (from Coffee culture)
Image 19Coffee plantation (from History of coffee)
Image 20A Viennese coffeehouse (2004) (from Coffee culture)
Image 21Kaffa kalid coffeepot, by French silversmith François-Thomas Germain, 1757, silver with ebony handle, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
Image 22An espresso by the glass in Trieste - in the local dialect "Nero in B" (from Coffee culture)
Image 23Café Zimmermann, Leipzig (engraving by Johann Georg Schreiber, 1732) (from History of coffee)
Image 24Palestinian women grinding coffee, 1905 (from History of coffee)
Image 25Cafés in central Tirana (2017) (from Coffee culture)
Image 26Family in Söderhamn, Sweden, seated for fika (c. 1916) (from Coffee culture)