After water, coffee is the most consumed drink in the world. Believe it or not, 2.5 billion cups are drunk a day. That’s the equivalent of almost 21 million kilos of coffee. I came across this site that allows you to vote and be a part of voting for Europe’s Coffee capital. Vote for your favorite coffee city: www.citiesofcoffee.com and let’s see which city in Europe drinks coffee the most.
Cities competing are Paris, Rome, Berlin and London?
You can vote for your favorite city with this interesting competition initiated by Villeroy&Boch.
The winning city gets 1000 original Villeroy & Boch New Wave Cities of Europe cups free!
Some facts about Coffee
Champion importer
The United States is the biggest importer of green coffee. This is due not to extreme levels of coffee consumption, but rather to the lack of local production – the coffee plant only grows in the State of Hawaii. The second largest importer is Germany, Italy lies in third place.
Dreamy milk foam
to create perfect frothy milk you need the right milk! Not only is the fat content important, but the protein content of the milk should be between 3.4g and 3.6g per liter. The right temperature is also necessary – never let the milk boil otherwise the protein curdles and the foam collapses.
Color spectrum
Experts differentiate between as many as ten different roasts of coffee according to color. The scale ranges from light cinnamon (very light brown) to American (medium brown), to French press (dark brown, very shiny and oily) to Spanish (graphite black, matt rather than glossy)
Luxury good
In the middle of the seventeenth century coffee drinking was an expensive luxury. In Paris a pound of Arabica coffee cost about 500 Euros at today’s values.
