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Coffee

Coffee is a beverage made from seeds. It can be made by boiling, simmering, or infusing and paired with sugar, milk, or cream. Coffee is sold canned or as a powder.

Category
Drinks
Part used
Seed
Family
Rubiaceae
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Iran
Coffee, prepared

Photo: Julius Schorzman · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use coffee

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Boil simmer
  • Infuse

Cooking with it

Avoid brewing the grounds too long, which can draw out bitter compounds. Cold brewing uses coarsely ground beans and produces a less acidic drink than most hot methods.

Goes well with

Shopping

Choosing and storing coffee

Sold as
Canned, Powder

Around the world

Where coffee is cooked

2 dishes in the catalogue use coffee. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list coffee among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. 1600 · Italy

    Coffee had reached Italy by 1600.

  2. 1657 · France

    Coffee was introduced to France in 1657.

  3. 1727 · Brazil

    Coffee was introduced to Brazil in 1727.

On the table

Dishes made with coffee

1 of the 2 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.
  • Sholezard

    Iran

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include coffee.

Around the world

What coffee is called

Names in 277 languages, from Wikidata.
  • Spanish

    café · cafe

  • French

    café

  • Italian

    caffè · espresso

  • Portuguese

    café

  • German

    Kaffee · Caffee · Bohnenkaffee · Röstkaffee

  • Dutch

    koffie

  • Greek

    καφές

  • Turkish

    kahve

  • Russian

    кофе

  • Polish

    kawa

  • Arabic

    قهوة

  • Persian

    قهوه

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  • Abkhazian

    акаҳуа

  • acm

    گهوة

  • Afar

    buna · buun

  • Afrikaans

    koffie · boeretroos

  • Akan

    kofe

  • Albanian

    kafeja

  • Algerian Arabic

    قهوة

  • Amharic

    ቡና

  • Angika

    कॉफी

  • apc

    قهوة

  • Aragonese

    café

  • Armenian

    սուրճ

  • Aromanian

    cafe

  • Assamese

    কফি

  • Asturian

    café

  • Atikamekw

    kapi

  • Avaric

    къагьва · кофе

  • Awadhi

    कफी

  • azb

    قهوه

  • Azerbaijani

    qəhvə

  • Balinese

    kopi

  • Bambara

    kafe

  • Bangla

    কফি

  • Banjar

    kupi

  • Bashkir

    ҡәһүә · кофе

  • Basque

    kafe

  • Bavarian

    Kafää

  • bdr

    kupi'

  • Belarusian

    кава

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    кава

  • Betawi

    gahwa

  • Bikol

    kape

  • Bislama

    kofi

  • Bosnian

    kafa · kahva

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    café

  • Breton

    kafe

  • Bulgarian

    кафе

  • Buriat

    кофе

  • Burmese

    ကော်ဖီ

  • Cantonese

    咖啡

  • Catalan

    cafè

  • cdo

    gă-pĭ

  • Cebuano

    kapi

  • Central Dusun

    kupi

  • Central Kurdish

    قاوە

  • Chamorro

    café

  • Chechen

    къахьо

  • Cherokee

    ᎧᏫ

  • Cheyenne

    mo'ôhtávêhohpe

  • Chinese

    咖啡

  • Choctaw

    kʋfi

  • Chuvash

    кофе

  • Cornish

    koffi

  • Corsican

    caffè

  • Crimean Tatar

    qave

  • Crimean Tatar (Latin)

    qave

  • Croatian

    kava

  • Czech

    káva · kafe

  • dag

    tii

  • Danish

    kaffe

  • Divehi

    ގަހުވަ · ކޮފީ

  • dty

    कफी

  • Dzongkha

    ཀཱ་ཕི།

  • Egyptian Arabic

    قهوه

  • Emilian

    cafa

  • Erzya

    кофе

  • Esperanto

    kafo

  • Estonian

    kohv

  • Extremaduran

    sidru · café

  • Faroese

    kaffi

  • Fiji Hindi

    coffee

  • Fijian

    kofe · kofi

  • Filipino

    kape · Jupiter · Shashakarinz

  • Finnish

    kahvi

  • Friulian

    cafè

  • Fula

    kofi

  • Galician

    café

  • Gan Chinese

    咖啡

  • gcr

    kafé

  • Georgian

    ყავა

  • Gothic

    𐌺𐌰𐍈𐌰

  • Guarani

    taperyva rykue

  • Gujarati

    કૉફી · કહવા

  • Haitian Creole

    kafe

  • Hakka Chinese

    kâ-pî

  • Hawaiian

    kofe

  • Hebrew

    קפה

  • Herero

    ozo-mbonde

  • Hiligaynon

    kapé

  • Hindi

    कॉफ़ी · क़हवा · कहवा · कॉफी

  • Hungarian

    kávé

  • hyw

    սուրճ

  • Iban

    kupi

  • Icelandic

    kaffi

  • Ido

    kafeo

  • Igbo

    kọfị

  • Iloko

    kape

  • Inari Sami

    kähvi

  • Indonesian

    kopi · kopi (minuman)

  • Ingush

    кофи

  • Interlingua

    caffe

  • Interlingue

    café

  • Inuktitut

    ᑳᐱ · kaapi

  • Inupiaq

    kuukpiaq

  • Irish

    caife

  • Jamaican Creole English

    kaafi

  • Japanese

    コーヒー · 珈琲

  • Javanese

    kopi

  • Jju

    Coffee

  • Kabardian

    къэхьэуэ

  • Kabyle

    taɣlust · lqahwa

  • Kalaallisut

    kaffi

  • Kalmyk

    кофе

  • Kannada

    ಕಾಫಿ

  • Kanuri

    kófì

  • Kara-Kalpak

    Kofe

  • Karachay-Balkar

    кофе

  • Kashmiri

    کافی

  • Kashubian

    kawa

  • Kazakh

    кофе

  • kbp

    kɔfɩ

  • kge

    kopi

  • Khmer

    កាហ្វេ

  • Kinyarwanda

    ikawa

  • Kongo

    káfé

  • Korean

    커피 · 양탕 · 양탕국

  • Kuanyama

    okofi

  • Kurdish

    qehwe

  • Kyrgyz

    кофе

  • Ladino

    kavé

  • Lao

    ກາເຟ

  • Latin

    coffeum

  • Latvian

    kafija

  • Lezghian

    къагьве

  • Ligurian

    caffè

  • Limburgish

    kóffe

  • Lingala

    kafé · káwa · kawa

  • Lingua Franca Nova

    cafe

  • Literary Chinese

    咖啡

  • Lithuanian

    kava

  • Lojban

    ckafi

  • Lombard

    cafè · café

  • Low German

    Kaffe

  • Low Saxon

    koffie

  • Lower Sorbian

    kafej

  • Lozi

    kofi

  • Lule Sami

    káffa

  • Luxembourgish

    Kaffi

  • Macedonian

    кафе

  • Madurese

    kopi

  • Maithili

    कफी

  • Malagasy

    kafe · kaoatry

  • Malay

    kopi · kahwa · kahua · kofi

  • Malay (Arabic)

    کوڤي · قهوا

  • Malayalam

    കാപ്പി

  • Maltese

    kafè

  • Māori

    kawhe

  • Marathi

    कॉफी

  • Mari

    кофе

  • Min Nan Chinese

    ka-pi

  • Minangkabau

    kopi

  • Mingrelian

    ყავა

  • Mirandese

    café

  • Moksha

    кофе

  • Mongolian

    кофе

  • Moroccan Arabic

    قهوة

  • nah

    cafēn · cafentzin

  • Navajo

    ahwééh · gohwééh

  • Ndonga

    okoofi

  • Neapolitan

    ccafè

  • Nepali

    कफी

  • Nias

    kofi

  • Niuean

    kofe

  • Northern Frisian

    Kofe

  • Northern Sami

    gáffe · káffe

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    kaffe

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    kaffi

  • nrm

    café

  • Nyanja

    kofi

  • Obolo

    kọ̀fi

  • Occitan

    cafè

  • Odia

    କଫି

  • Old English

    caffiȝ

  • olo

    koufei

  • Oromo

    buna

  • Ossetic

    къофи

  • Pampanga

    kape

  • Papiamento

    koffie

  • Pashto

    قهوه

  • Pennsylvania German

    Kaffi

  • Piedmontese

    cafè

  • Plautdietsch

    Koffe

  • Punjabi

    ਕੌਫ਼ੀ

  • Quechua

    kaphiy

  • rmf

    kaali

  • Romanian

    cafea

  • Romansh

    café

  • Romany

    kafa

  • Rusyn

    кава

  • Samoan

    kofe

  • Samogitian

    kava

  • Sango

    kâwa · kâfe

  • Sanskrit

    काफीपेयम्

  • Santali

    ᱠᱚᱯᱷᱤ

  • Sardinian

    caffè

  • Sassarese Sardinian

    caffè

  • Saterland Frisian

    Kafe

  • Scots

    coffee

  • Scottish Gaelic

    cofaidh

  • Serbian

    кафа

  • Serbian (Latin)

    kava

  • Seri

    cafée · xica coopol

  • Shan

    ​​ၵေႃႇၾီႇ

  • Shona

    kofi

  • Sicilian

    cafè

  • Silesian

    kafyj

  • Simplified Chinese

    咖啡

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    咖啡

  • Simplified Chinese (Malaysia)

    咖啡

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    咖啡

  • Sindhi

    قهوو · ڪافي

  • Sinhala

    කෝපි

  • sjd

    ка̄фэ · кофэ

  • Skolt Sami

    kååʹff · kaaʹff

  • Slovak

    káva

  • Slovenian

    kava · kafe · kofe

  • Somali

    bun

  • Southern Sami

    prïhtjege

  • Sranan Tongo

    kofi

  • Sundanese

    kopi

  • Swahili

    kahawa

  • Swedish

    kaffe

  • Swiss German

    Kaffi · Kaffee

  • szy

    kuhi

  • Tachelhit

    l-qhwa

  • Tajik

    қаҳва

  • Tamil

    காப்பி · குளம்பி

  • Tatar

    каһвә

  • Telugu

    కాఫీ

  • Tetum

    kafé

  • Thai

    กาแฟ · โกปี้

  • Tibetan

    ཁོ་ཧྥེ།

  • Tigrinya

    ቡን

  • Tok Pisin

    kopi

  • Toki Pona

    telo wawa pimeja · telo pimeja

  • Traditional Chinese

    咖啡

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    咖啡

  • Traditional Chinese (Macao SAR China)

    咖啡

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    咖啡

  • Turkmen

    kofe

  • Tuvinian

    кофе

  • Udmurt

    кофе

  • Ukrainian

    кава

  • Upper Sorbian

    kofej

  • Urdu

    کافی

  • Uyghur

    قەھۋە

  • Uzbek

    qahva

  • Venetian

    cafè

  • Veps

    kofe

  • Vietnamese

    cà phê

  • Volapük

    kaf

  • Võro

    kohv

  • Walloon

    cafè

  • Waray

    kape

  • Wayuu

    kepein

  • Welsh

    coffi

  • West Flemish

    kaffie

  • Western Frisian

    kofje

  • Western Panjabi

    کافی (مشروب)

  • Wolof

    kafe

  • Wu Chinese

    咖啡

  • Wu Chinese (Simplified)

    咖啡

  • Xhosa

    ikofu

  • Yakut

    кофе

  • Yiddish

    קאווע

  • Yoruba

    kofi · ohun mímu

  • Zeelandic

    koffie

  • Zhuang

    gahfeih

  • Zulu

    ikhofi

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q8486

Photos

Photo: Julius Schorzman · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons