On the heels of recent news regarding the health benefits of coffee Erin Kennedy writes an Ode to Coffee:

As I was sipping my piping hot, freshly ground Starbucks House Blend, I thought, —ahhhh—. I’m not sure what it is about coffee, but I love it. Caffeinated or not, I love coffee. The smell, the taste, the culture. I need it, have to have it, would hate to live without it.

I am from a family of huge coffee drinkers. My parents always had a pot of it going. I loved the smell, but hated the taste of it (they drank it black). When I was 19, my boyfriend at the time drank it and, wanting to impress him of course, I started as well. My love affair with coffee continued long after college and long after the boyfriend. What a wonderful courtship it has been…

Thanks to Sharad Verma for the link to the article.

Whether you call it coffee, kawa, café, caffè, kaffee, coffi, кофе, káva, koffie, kahvi, kávé, kahve, or кава enjoy.