Coffee Buzz

Guest Blog by Diane Bock The Age of Enlightenment is associated with intellectual exchange, reason and sharing of the new ideas. We think of names like Isaac newton, Thomas Jefferson and John Locke. Could this new way of thinking also be connected with coffee? During this period the coffee house emerged as a social center.  People from all walks of life mixed and mingled and pollinated each others' ideas.  They also started consuming buckets of coffee while moving away from swilling beer morning, noon and night.  Prior to that, beer was the safest beverage due to the pollution levels of water…