Coffee and Its Relationship with Modern Society

Abstract

Coffee has been enjoyed all over the world and considered to be a significant beverage in our daily lives. To trace its root, it is necessary to go back to Africa, and then, Arabic countries for the use of modern societies. Coffee has taken various forms to end up as a beverage. It was once eaten as food, taken as medicine, drunk as wine, and then enjoyed as a beverage. It took a long time until coffee trees had spread all over the world and had started to be planted successfully. Europeans especially made a great deal of efforts to plant them in order to expand their coffee business, and coffee started to have unavoidable influence in European society through coffee-houses. Coffee-houses have masculine image because it was originated from Arabic countries and coffee-houses were the places where men met each other and enjoyed talking about politics, economics, and many other issues. This tendency is compared to that of tea-houses, which is usually connected with a feminine image.