What is the importance of Turkish Coffee for us?
Coffee, which we drink with pleasure every day, has an important place in our lives for over 600 years. According to research, various stories are told about the history of coffee. It is stated that it spread all over the world from Abyssinia at the beginning of the 14th century, and its origin is the Kaffa region in Southern Abyssinia, whose etymology is similar to coffee.
Ozdemir Pasha, one of the Mamluk Circassians, the father of Grand Vizier Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha, the governor of Yemen in the Ottoman Empire, brought coffee to Istanbul, which he admired for its taste. With the new method of preparation, coffee was cooked in pots and coffee pots and took the name Turkish coffee. Starting from Tahtakale and spreading to the city, the coffeehouses made it widespread among the people.
In a short time, thanks to the merchants and travelers who came to Istanbul and the Ottoman ambassadors, the taste and fame of Turkish Coffee first spread to Europe and then to the whole world.
According to research, coffee is the most common drug in the world, consumed by 80 percent of American adults. It's also actually a powerful psychoactive compound. With the caffeine it contains, coffee accompanies us to start the day fresh, to stay awake and increase our energy.
According to studies, it is claimed that drinking coffee in the first hours of the day does not have any effect on our body to stay awake. So when should we drink coffee? Cortisol levels rise in relation to sunlight and your body's alertness, so it's a good idea not to drink coffee for an hour to 90 minutes after waking up. If you wake up around 08:00 in the morning, you should wait until at least 09:30 for the first cup of the day.
Cortisol levels also rise again around noon, so it would be best to have your afternoon coffee around 13:30.
We have to make sure we drink coffee at the most productive time to benefit our body. Of course, the hours of our pleasure coffees are different. We enjoy our time even more in the coffees we drink while reading books, accompany us in our conversations, and drink during our traditional marriage ceremonies or fortune-telling rituals.
We wish you to remember us in every coffee you drink, enjoy it.
Resources:
1. Science Shows the Best Time to Drink Coffee, and It's Probably Not When You Thought (mic.com)
2. Turkish coffee - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
