Gourmet Coffee

If you’ve just come home after a long cold day, and you need a tasty way to warm up and relax, have a cup of Irish cream coffee. Irish coffee is a mixture of hot coffee, Irish whiskey, and sugar, topped with whipped cream (some variations include regular cream instead of whipped).

The original Irish coffee was invented in the 1940s by Joseph Sheridan at Foynes, County Limerick. A group of freezing Americans got off a ship during a cold winter evening, and Sheridan, head chef for the port, decided to add whiskey to their coffee to warm up. When they asked him if it was Brazilian coffee, he told them it was Irish coffee.

Irish cream flavoring can also be purchased to add to coffee, which is non-alcoholic.

Organic coffee is coffee that is grown using methods and materials that have a low impact on the environment. An organic production system will replenish and maintain soil fertility, reduce the use of toxic pesticides and fertilizers, and build biologically diverse agriculture.

To be certified and sold in the United States as organic coffee, it must meet a few requirements:
the coffee must be certified by a U.S. Department of Agriculture accredited agency, farmed for three years without the use of synthetic pesticides or other prohibited substances, and maintain a sustainable crop rotation plan to prevent erosion, the depletion of spoil nutrients, and to control for pests.