National Coffee Day

 Today is the day we celebrate that crucial beverage, coffee.  Happy National Coffee Day!  I've always wondered how we came to create coffee.  Somewhere in history, a person decided that he should pluck the hard stone out of a cherry-like fruit of a particular plant, wash and dry it, then roast it until it was a dark brown.  Then grind it up and mix it with hot water before drinking it.  I offer my deep gratitude to whoever that hero of history may have been.  Coffee is a venerable, old beverage, but is as important today as it ever has been.  In fact, its popularity may have surpassed tea even in such a famously tea-centric nation as England.  The history of coffee is a long and interesting one, worthy of a fascinating book.  (I once owned an autographed copy of this book, but lent it out and it was never returned.  I don't lend books anymore.) As novelist Anthony Trollope once said, "What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?" So sit back and nestle in to your favorite reading space, and enjoy a cup of luxury.

Buy local, drink local: Daysol Coffee Lab, Helena Alabama