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Dresden: The home of the first coffee filter, tea
bag, toothpaste and bra. It's true. Look it up.
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–noun
a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about
Origin:
from German Wanderlust , lit. "desire for wandering"
1850-55; First recorded usage 1902
Everyday I find new things I love about this country I live in.
Take for example, one particularly frustrating afternoon at the lab last week. I was carefully researching how to make the perfect cup of Nescafe Gold. For those of you who are scoffing, there's a thin line between bitter and perfect, marked by a precise quantity of water. It requires some expertise to determine where that line is and so I, like the scientist that I am, decided to enlist the help of Google.
In the course of data collection to answer my question, I stumbled upon an article that completely made my day. I read about a housewife from Dresden, who in the late 1800's was also wondering how to make the perfect cup of coffee, without the bitter taste of over-brewing. Mellita Bentz decided to take matters into her own hands; and using a metal cup and some blotting paper, invented the world's first coffee filter. With clearly no help from Google.
On June 20th, 1908 the coffee filter and filter paper were patented and six months later, the Melitta Bentz company was born. Just a few kilometers from where I live today, with my coffee maker and a Melitta Bentz filter in it.
Coffee makes a beginning,whether to a blog or a day.
ReplyDeleteBut how could I not know this?About the coffee filter.