One tradition that has been passed down through the generations is coffee fortune-telling.
Coffee has been central to Turkish culture since the first coffeehouses in the 1500s.
Thai coffee is brewed strong, spiced with chicory and combined with condensed milk and ice.
The usual coffee shop frills are also conspicuously absent: there are no cakes, salads or sandwiches.
It is a telling sign that specialty coffee may be about to go mainstream.
It too serves nothing but hand-brewed coffee and espresso in utterly stripped back and minimalist surroundings.
Thankfully, coffee in Italy is always served at a temperature cool enough to drink immediately.
'We have to buy flour, sugar and coffee... but everything homemade is more tasty!'
Coffee is prepared 1700s-style: on the open fire in small copper jugs with long handles.
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The main industry in the southern city of Jacmel, for example, was once harvesting coffee.
So, if not the coffee, then what explains the prolificacy of the coffee house?
Another strange thing about a Viennese coffee house is that the coffee is almost irrelevant.
Coffee culture here is pretty much the opposite of most of the rest of the coffee-drinking world.
Instead I explored the roomy closets, sampled the complimentary coffee, put on heels and went to dinner.
The roiling river before us runs wide and high, the colour of coffee rich with heavy cream.
After coffee Sarun grabbed a couple of umbrellas and took me on a tour of the site.
Next door is Just Us Coffee, the last stop along Route 1 before leaving Grand Pre.
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As the story goes, in order to make the drink more like regular coffee, they added hot water.
To this day, these kissa are still more like vinyl audio museums than places to grab a coffee.
Round off your meal with a salty brownie and a cup of locally roasted coffee at Baked.
Bowls of fruit and vegetables were brought from the altar, along with mugs of coffee and barley tea.
These are all approaches that had helped make Starbucks No. 1 among coffee marketers.
The modified Piaggio Vespa has a built-in coffee machine like those in any coffee shop.
For example a popular ingredient for weight loss supplements today is Green Coffee Bean extract.
Chinese students nowadays shuttle between China, EU, US like Canadians going to Tim Hortons for coffee.
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Choose one activity from your daily routine: showering, your commute, brushing your teeth, drinking coffee.
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The row led coffee chain Starbucks to agree to pay more UK corporation tax.
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Just by sharing your opinion you can pay for your next cup of coffee.
Maybe it was over a cup of coffee, a glass of wine, or lunch.
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The problem with most home coffeemakers has always been that they make bad coffee.
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