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From Yemen to Keurig: The 600-Year Obsession With the Perfect Cup of Coffee
For most of coffee's history, your morning cup was gritty, bitter, and full of sludge.
People drank it that way for 600 years because that's just how coffee was.
Then a frustrated German housewife punched holes in a tin pot, tore a page from her son's notebook, and accidentally changed the way the world drinks coffee.
In this episode of Hidden History with Aiden Thomas, we trace the obsessive 600-year quest for a better cup.
From 15th-century Yemen to the 18th-century French Biggin pot, through the 1865 American percolator and Angelo Moriano's first espresso machine — to Melitta Bentz's 1908…
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