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Storage, origins, terminology and how the plant became a drink.

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Coffee is full of compounds that act as antioxidants in the lab, and because so many people drink so much of i

Set the coffee and the water follows, or set the water and the coffee follows. Eighteen methods, each with the

Typical amounts by drink, given as ranges because that is what the evidence supports. A single espresso has le

Roasters, baristas and bags of beans use a vocabulary of their own. Here is what 73 of the most common terms m

Coffee began as a wild shrub in the forests of Ethiopia, became a drink in Yemen, spread through the Ottoman w

Find what your coffee tastes like in the table, make the one change listed, brew it again. Most problems are o

Seven grind sizes, what each one feels like between your fingers, and which brewer wants it. Grind is the dial

Two seconds of air while the milk is still cold, then spin it smooth and stop at 60°C. Everything else about s

Buy whole beans, keep them in an airtight container somewhere cool and dark, and grind only what you need just

Thirty things about coffee that are true, which is more than can be said for most lists of coffee facts. Where

Colombian coffee is washed arabica grown on the slopes of the Andes, mostly by smallholders, under rules set b

Organic coffee is grown without synthetic pesticides and fertilisers on land certified free of them for at lea

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