Introduction
For those who want to undertake a profession that will live moments of unrivaled aromatic sensation in the Coffee Houses is the information that is collected on the pages of this material.
It must be remembered that the basis of the success of any career lies in the seriousness and professionalism with which one acts, one must have a good dose of sympathy and education, but be careful not to exaggerate, since cordiality does not mean meddling.
The quality of a good bartender is that of knowing how to dialogue with the client who has a desire, and knowing how to be equally discreet with who, or by character, or by having a disappointed day, prefers to drink their cup of coffee in silence.
The important thing is that the client is always at home and that he feels treated as if he were at home.
So many small attentions can turn your client into an "amateur", that is, habitual.
A satisfied customer means a secure source of income and that will advertise the premises; It should not be forgotten that the customer well served with coffee is potentially a consumer for the aperitif hour, for the tapas at noon or after lunch.
This is how it is explained, as coffee making assumes a fundamental role in the service, the clerk will have to transmit to the customers the reliability of the product they consume.
The principles of seriousness, professionalism, continuous care, friendliness and cordiality, mentioned above, must be well known at Las Casas de Café.
Coffee history. Origins and legends
In 850, in Persia, the first historical references can be found, but, wanting to cite some versions, among the most colorful and legendary that can occur, in the discovery of coffee, one must go back further in time. The most "legitimate", considering the Muslim origin of the product, is undoubtedly the one seen by Archangel Gabriel who brings a cup of coffee from heaven to Muhammad, who was about to succumb to sleep, despite the serious tasks which was called.
The strength of the drink was such that it not only brought the prophet out of his torpor, without allowing him to disarm and defeat forty men with a single blow.
Someone believes they interpret as "coffee beans" that "roasted bean" that they offered as a gift to King David, as it is written in the Book of Kings, while others are convinced that Homer refers to coffee, when he talks about a drink that, mixed with wine, helena offers Telemachus, as recorded in the fourth song of the Odyssey and which is called “nephentes”.
In reality, the coffee story most likely begins in the Caffa region of Ethiopia, when observing a shepherd in the animals, a strange concern after they had eaten berries and leaves of an unknown plant.
Informed the monks of a nearby convent, after repeated and varied tests, they discovered that the seeds of these plants, roasted, crushed and infused, gave a drink that aided vigil, in the long hours of prayers and prayers. Thanks to this characteristic, it can be believed that the news and the use of the drink, spread in all convents, as well as in the entourage of the Ethiopian army, and in Yemen, during the various invasions that followed.
The spread became so great that it reached the cities of Mecca and Medina.
The numerous pilgrims who visited these cities had the opportunity to learn about the use of coffee, and contributed to its use, throughout the world.
Perhaps it is necessary to remember that the Muslims had and still have, the prohibition of alcoholic products. For this reason, this drink really found "fertilized land", to develop in the use and customs of these peoples.
To them we owe, precisely, the word "qahwah", which means infusion. The Turks later, will pronounce it "qahvé", easily passing to the European versions: coffee, caffé, coffee, Kaffee.
We arrived with our history around 1500. The premises where they drank coffee in the city of Mecca proliferated so much that an ordinance of the governor decreed the closure, for reasons of public order, but unfortunately, for this governor, in Cairo, the sultan was such an enthusiastic consumer of such a product that he repealed the decree and later relieved the rigid governor of his post.
In 1600, the English women petitioned against coffee because their husbands neglected them, to dedicate themselves to the new drink, while the Turkish women brought as a reason for divorce the fact that the husband prohibited them from drinking coffee..
It can be seen, how in each part of the world this product immediately influenced the public and private customs of the peoples and we are only between the 15th and 17th centuries.
At all times, venues were meeting places for the best names in European literature, politics and art in general.
Goldoni wrote "La bottega del caffe" (the coffee shop); Voltaire stated that he had 50 cups of coffee a day; Balzac is said to have taken 50,000 cups at the time he composed his comedy "Comédie Humaine"; in Paris the first café arose in 1660 at the merit of an Italian nobleman Procopio de Cultelli and well ahead of the Comédie Française it was assiduously frequented by men of letters, artists and others by such characters as Rousseau, Diderot, Danton, Robespierre. From these names, it can be deduced what weight the place had, as a meeting point for destinations in France.
In Venice, the first coffee shop was opened in 1683 and in a short time, the establishments where it was possible to drink this drink were 200. In Vienna, the first coffee shop was opened in 1684, thanks to a Polish man who also having contributed to saving the city from the siege of the Turks, he invented a new way of preparing coffee; filter the psos and sweeten the coffee with honey, also adding a little milk. At the same time, as a reminder of the past danger, a Viennese baker created a small sweet, in the shape of a crescent, which was served together with the drink (… you could think of a "cappuccino" with croissant, but the way to get to that was still long!).
The spontaneously growing coffee plant in Ethiopia, once moved to Arabia, came to be monopolized by that people; In the meantime, demand increased with the proliferation of all these coffee shops, and then, some officials of the Dutch Indies Company moved some plants, for their Ceylon and Java possessions.
The ideal climate of these areas, in a few years, allowed the Dutch to be coffee producers so strong as to impose their prices on the market. A little later, the French were the ones who used the same way, to plant some precious taleas in Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Trinidad; Finally, a young Portuguese man in turn removed small plants that were brought to Brazil. In less than a century, Brazil became the most important producer in the world (in 1907 it produced 97% of the world harvest).
We come then to the beginning of our century and that is when the Express coffee machines, that is, the teams that expressly prepare coffee from time to time, were created. Until then, in fact, in public places, coffee was prepared in large containers and kept warm in a water bath, with the problem that if it was not used within a few hours, coffee had to be thrown because the infusion deteriorated over time. The espresso machines introduced a new way of drinking coffee, facilitating a very different taste from the following precedents.
The coffee plant - with whose fruits and seeds the infusion known as coffee is made - is a bush native to Ethiopia, which since time immemorial the tribes of that area ground their beans and made a paste with which they fed animals and animals. warriors believing that this increased their strength.
Later its cultivation spread to neighboring Arabia and from Yemen it spread to the rest of the Arab world. He arrived in Europe around 1600 thanks to Venetian merchants and quickly crossed the Atlantic where, due to the ideal climatic conditions, it was not long before large coffee farms were established. In fact, Brazil and Colombia continue to be the main coffee producing regions along with Vietnam, Kenya and the Ivory Coast.
The coffee plant arrived in Cuba in the 18th century, brought to Cuba by Don José Gelabert, who founded in the Wajay, on the outskirts of Havana, the first coffee plantation on the Island around 1748, with seed from Santo Domingo, today Dominican Republic.
The Cuban coffee boom took place during the first three decades of the 19th century. Although Cuba lost its leadership as a coffee exporter, due to the commercial restrictions of Spain, it maintained a high quality in the cultivation and benefits of the bean.
The Cuban culture in obtaining Arabica coffee dates back more than 250 years.
The wisdom in the cultivation and care of the grain has been transmitted from parents to children and thus from generation to generation, becoming a family tradition. The Cuban peasant treats his coffee plantations with care. Since it is still a seed, it prints its knowledge acquired over so many years and that it has received from its ancestors.
Each of the stages of this long process that goes from the seed to the cup is charged with love and special care. Thus, each plant that emerges from the earth is cared for individually until the mature grain emerges, which will be collected one by one without the intervention of any other instrument than the naked hand of man. Its cultivation, benefit and industrial process that guarantee the obtaining of high quality grains.
When the exotic Cuban coffee is tasted, we are at the culmination of a process that originated years ago, when the plant was born whose beans are enjoyed in the form of an aromatic drink. Cuba has the largest number of coffee plantation ruins in the world with archaeological values, many of them excellently well preserved and located in areas that have been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
In Cuba, coffee is an inseparable part of the identity and daily life of its people. The day does not begin until the aroma floats in the air and the lips savor the "little coffee". Only then are you ready to face a new day and with it your challenges. The welcome of a good host in Cuba is inconceivable if you do not have a steaming cup of coffee in the reception. Phrases like "we are going to make a coladita", "do you want a little cup of coffee?" Make up the golden rule of Cuban courtesy…
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