{"id":87,"date":"2022-06-01T11:15:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T11:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buna2710.live-website.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:54:54","slug":"curiosidades-del-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunafuengirola.es\/en\/curiosidades-del-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Curiosities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the seemingly routine act of ordering a coffee lies a story rich in botanical, linguistic, and even military anecdotes. Here are four fascinating facts that will give you a great conversation starter for your next visit to the coffee shop.<\/p>\n\n<h2>1. You\u2019ve Been Fooled: They Aren\u2019t Beans<\/h2>\n<p>Even though the entire industry calls them \u201cbeans\u201d because of their appearance after roasting, botanically they are not. <strong>Coffee is the seed of a fruit<\/strong>. Specifically, they are the inner pit of red or yellow cherries that grow on the coffee plant shrub.<\/p>\n\n<h2>2. The Origin of the Names: Cappuccino and Americano<\/h2>\n<p>Coffee terminology carries a strong historical component:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li><strong>Capuchino:<\/strong> Its name has nothing to do with the recipe, but with the color. The perfect blend of espresso and steamed milk creates a brownish tone that resembled the robes worn by Capuchin monks in Italy.<\/li>\n    <li><strong>Americano:<\/strong> During World War II, American soldiers stationed in Italy found the local espresso far too strong and concentrated for their taste. To dilute it and make it resemble the drip coffee they were used to back home, they asked for hot water to be added.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2>3. The First Coffeehouses Were an Alternative to Alcohol<\/h2>\n<p>In the 15th century, coffee plants reached Yemen and Arabia. This highly energizing drink, which provided wakefulness and mental clarity, quickly prospered as an excellent social substitute for alcohol in Islamic cultures. By the 16th century, the first public coffeehouses had opened in Constantinople, Syria, and Persia. Word of mouth among European travelers brought this \u201cmagical potion\u201d to Europe, paving the way for the first caf\u00e9s in Venice, Marseille, and London in the 17th century.<\/p>\n\n<h2>4. From \u201cArabian Wine\u201d to the Word Coffee<\/h2>\n<p>The first Europeans to taste it didn\u2019t know how to classify it, so they named it <em>\u201cArabian wine.\u201d<\/em>Etymologically, the word comes from the Arabic <em>\u00abqahhwat al-bun\u00bb<\/em> (\u201cwine of the bean\u201d). Over time, it was shortened to <em>\u00abqahwah\u00bb<\/em>which then made its way into Turkish as <em>\u00abkahveh\u00bb<\/em>which Dutch traders adapted into <em>\u00abkoffie\u00bb<\/em>and from there it evolved into the <em>\u00abcaffe\u00bb<\/em> Italian caff\u00e8, and eventually into our modern Spanish \u201ccaf\u00e9.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detr\u00e1s del acto rutinario de pedir un caf\u00e9 se esconde una historia rica en an\u00e9cdotas bot\u00e1nicas, ling\u00fc\u00edsticas y b\u00e9licas. Aqu\u00ed tienes cuatro datos fascinantes que te dar\u00e1n un buen tema de conversaci\u00f3n para tu pr\u00f3xima visita a la cafeter\u00eda. 1. Vives enga\u00f1ado: no son granos A pesar de que toda la industria los llama \"granos\" [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultura-del-cafe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunafuengirola.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunafuengirola.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunafuengirola.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunafuengirola.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunafuengirola.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bunafuengirola.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/bunafuengirola.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunafuengirola.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunafuengirola.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunafuengirola.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunafuengirola.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}