Coffee@nationalgeographic.com

Java. Joe. Battery acid.

It goes by many monikers, and the fact is that a goodly portion of the world's population would suffer greatly if it ever became scarce.

Coffee is the commodity whose price jump about ten years ago was taken very hard by its billions of fans. Thankfully, its price has come back down to earth.

Today's FamilyFirst site celebrates the bean that affects the lives of so many. It's presented by the best, National Geographic. It's called Coffee@nationalgeographic.com.

I LOVE coffee. In fact, I drink way too much of it. Just black, nothing to dilute its natural glory, and the darker the roast the better, that's my preference.

No matter how you take your brew, you'll get a caffeine kick out of the nice site.

Read about coffee's origin as a human staple, supposedly occurring about 800 C.E. An Ethiopian goatherd named Kaldi legendarily saw his charges enjoying a succulent bean and dancing with delight (or caffeine) afterwards. Trying some, he reacted the same way, and an obsession was born.

While you're there, read in its entirety an article published in 1981concerning coffee which begins with the author telling a vivid first-hand account of enjoying a Japanese compost-coffee burial treatment. Now THAT's getting into coffee!

So pour yourself a cuppa, sit back, and savor today's FamilyFirst site like a fine Kenyan medium roast.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/coffee/

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