Rain and Coffee
It is another dreary day here in central Ohio. Cold and wet. I find myself sitting in a coffee shop contemplating such things as “why are there so many banks on one street?” and resisting the urge to go outside and start plucking bag worms off of trees growing outside the window of the shop. And as I stare into my warm cup of coffee, my mind not really having the energy to be original, I start thinking about coffee plants and beans. Coffee plant are indigenous to Asia and Africa. But you can also grow a coffee tree as a fragrant house plant indoors, specifically Coffea arabica. Also, the coffee that most people are familiar with, is man made. Coffee beans are “flavored” by roasting.
Coffee roasting is a complicated chemical process that creates the distinctive flavor of coffee from a bland bean. Unroasted beans contain all of coffee’s acids, protein, and caffeine — but none of its taste.
Strait off the tree or bush, I imagine it would taste a lot like. . . . well, a seed. I don’t think that would make a very good drink. I suppose this is why we there are so many varieties of coffee, since the flavor come from processing, it can be easily altered. I’ve always been slightly disappointed by this fact. I think it would be really awesome to grow a vanilla mocha coffee tree, or a decaf tree for a late night cup to relax with. Until they make this kind of genetically created plant, I suppose I’ll have to be content to continue visiting my little coffee shop for my cup of caramel mocchiatto espresso. But then I don’t think I have enough space to grow all the different varieties I would want!
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