While the
earliest evidence of coffee drinking appeared in Yemen in the middle of the
15th century, which country today, is most fond of the much-loved coffee bean?
According
to coffee consumption per capita – it's the Finns that come out on top. They
grind their way through an impressive twelve kilos of coffee per person per
year, according to stats from the International Coffee Organization (ICO).
Finland's neighbors are just as hungry for coffee. Norway, Iceland, Denmark and
Sweden also make the top 10 coffee drinkers.
Based
on data collated by WorldAtlas.com, these are the top 10 countries for
consumption of coffee per capita:
Finland
- 12 kg per person per year (26.5 lbs per year which are 2.2 lbs per month!)
Norway
- 9.9 kg
Iceland
- 9 kg
Denmark
- 8.7 kg
Netherlands
- 8.4 kg
Sweden
- 8.2 kg
Switzerland
- 7.9 kg
Belgium
- 6.8 kg
Luxembourg
- 6.5 kg
Canada
- 6.2 kg
Looking
around the world at how others drink their coffee:
FINLAND
Coming
in at the top are Finnish coffee drinkers. A report from Nordic Coffee Culture
found that 6% of Finnish women and 14% of men drink more than ten cups of
coffee per day. Yes, that is a huge amount of coffee! The average consumption
of coffee is 4-5 cups per day. Laws have been created to support this high
intake. Finnish workers are legally required to be given an official coffee
break, making Finland the only place in the world with a coffee break being
part of the law.
The
most popular coffees are very lightly roasted, but you can still get medium and
dark coffee in the country. If you drink decaf, you may be out of luck,
decaffeinated coffee is hard to come by with many coffee shops and supermarkets
not stocking decaffeinated coffee due to low demand.
Coffee
House, Pori, Finland
Liisankatu
2-4, 28100 Pori
Australians
love coffee and the local coffee culture has been influenced by the strong
Italian immigration, although to order an espresso you ask for a short black.
Australians
claim they invented the flat white, steamed frothy milk over a double shot of
espresso, but New Zealanders beg to disagree. While cappuccino is sometimes
spelled with some poetic license (cupachino), Italian speakers who are not
Australian residents might be surprised to find out that a latte (literally:
milk) is a coffee similar to a flat white but with more frothed milk, and a
piccolo (literally: small) is a ristretto with frothed milk, served in a small
glass.
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30
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Drinking
coffee is a social experience in Greece. Greek coffee is similar to espresso,
but you cannot drink it standing up: sipping a coffee is meant to be a
relaxing, enjoyable experience. In summer the most common choice would be a
frappé (φραπές), an iced coffee. In Greece coffee is a perfect excuse for
getting together with family or friends to have a chat about just about
everything. If, after two hours, you
still, have some coffee in your cup and found no solutions to your problems,
there’s always the option of coffee cup reading to help you along!” Dina
Gerolymou, Senior Producer.
Taf Coffee
Emmanoukil
Benaki 7,
Athina,
Greece
Website:
There
are nice coffee shops sprinkled throughout the major cities in Indonesia.
However, if you really want to experience Indonesian coffee culture you will
need to get out in the streets and away from the malls. Kopi Tubruk is the most
popular brewed coffee in the country, and in the warung kopi, road side stalls,
you will find unstrained brewed coffee in a glass. Indonesians prefer to drink black coffee with
sugar. Besides this plain coffee, people also serve coffee with herbs and
spices like Kopi Jahe, ginger coffee.
To
make a cup of Kopi Tubruk:
Add
two teaspoons of fine or medium ground coffee (sugar is optional) into a cup
Boil
the water and then add it to the cup at the boiling temperature
Stir
so the water and the coffee grounds mix well
Let
it stay and cook with the coffee for a few minutes until most of the ground
coffee has settled in the bottom
Enjoy
your coffee but leave the "mud" at the bottom alone. Don't drink it.
Coffee
is more a family thing in Colombia and it goes generally with breakfast but
coffee is also a beverage for cold weather.
Even though Colombian coffee is considered one of the best in the world,
Colombia doesn't have a big coffee culture.
"In
our country the typical coffee is Tinto which is basically a long black. But
for breakfast, it is more common to have coffee with milk which is the same as a
‘latte’." Carlos Colina, Senior Producer, SBS Spanish.
ColBru Coffee Shop
Carrera
10 #, Cl.1 Oe. #95
Cali,
Colombia
Coffee
is an integral part of Italian culture, with around eight million bags of green
coffee imported annually. Italians drink coffee either at home, where it is
usually made in a moka pot, or in cafés, restaurants and workplaces, where it's
dispensed from espresso coffee makers. It's served in tiny cups and it is
usually sipped while standing at cafés, a must is the affogato: vanilla ice
cream drowned in espresso!
Canova Tadolini
Via del Babuino,
150/a
Rome, Italy
You
may be surprised to know Brazil is ranked tenth in terms of coffee consumption
per capita because it has been the world's largest producer of coffee for the
last 150 years. Coffee is the national
beverage in Brazil, and coffee is actually cafezinho (ca-fay-zee-nyo), which is
almost a synonym for welcome in the country. Wherever you go, the minute you
walk in the door, someone will pop the question would you like a cafezinho?
Here's
a cafezinho recipe that has been handed down through the generations:.
Recipe
for Traditional Cafezinho
Ingredients
1
tbsp of Espresso Coffee for every cup of water
Sugar
to Taste
Instructions
You
will need a saucepan that you'll promise to use ONLY for making coffee.
Add
water to the pan, add the sugar and dissolve well.
Bring
to boil over medium heat.
When
the water and sugar mixture boils, add the coffee powder, stir well and remove
from heat immediately.
The
next thing you'll need is a traditional cloth coffee strainer. If you don't
have the real thing use a paper filter.
Pour
into a tiny cup (like a demitasse).
Source:
Maria's Cookbook
Sources:
Coffee houses and images researched by www.pillartopost.org
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