I love coffee so much. I just made my first cup of the day. I like it strong and black!
may be purchased unprocessed, or already roasted, or already roasted and ground. Coffee is often vacuum packed to prevent oxidation and lengthen its shelf life.
Roasting.
Roasting coffee transforms the chemical and physical properties of green coffee beans. When roasted, the green coffee bean expands to nearly double its original size, changing in color and density. As the bean absorbs heat, its color shifts to yellow, then to a light "cinnamon" brown, and then to a rich dark brown color. During roasting,
, suffered a heart attack at his home in Duluth, Minnesota. Hiller described the attack as follows: "I had just gotten up and was having a cup of coffee. I lit up a cigaret. It was strange – a heaviness in my chest. It felt like the pneumonia I had in 1966 so I put the cigaret out. Later I had another cigaret and had the same feeling. So I didn't smoke the rest of the day." He went to the hospital when the pain returned that night