Dorothy Jones of Boston was the first American coffee trader. It was in 1670 that she was granted a license to sell coffee.

We say coffee beans although they are really berries.

Coffee was brought into Costa Rica from Cuba by a Spanish traveller, Navarro, in 1779.

1 kilogram of roasted coffee requires 4,000 - 5,000 coffee beans.

Brazil had a postage stamp that was scented with coffee in December 2001

Hawaii is the only U.S. state in which coffee is commercially grown.

Over 53 countries grow coffee worldwide, but all of them lie along the equator between the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn.

Some of the worlds most powerful businesses, including Lloyds of London and the New York Stock Exchange, started life as a coffee house. Lloyd’s of London, the famous insurance broker, started by selling insurance to sailing ship captains, in London coffeehouses in the late 1600s. In fact, until recently the runners at the British Stock Exchange were still called waiters due to the fact that it, too, started as a coffee house.