Coffee,Delhi & Romance.

New Delhi Coffee Show—18-20^th Jan 2012

INDIA INTERNATIONAL COFFEE FESTIVAL 2012

Hotel Lalit- Central Delhi

Organizers- IICF, Visitors mainly business and few coffee lovers.

Espresso, Mocha, delicious cappuccino…is the famous names of coffee drinks….

It is more romantic to have espresso coffee with girl friend in cozy café…so coffee is normally more romantic drink than wine ,here in New Delhi.

New Delhi………. Love to be their..Coffee and friends, evening walk in winters…..

Drinking coffee is an art it is saying in France and Italy, but in New Delhi, it is matter of dignity, taste, meeting friends in cafe and winters.

For me coffee is additional drink as I need something new after having morning tea.

Coffee machines and Coffee cafe chain business is very attractive and lucrative, here in new modern Indian and especially in New Delhi. We have seen fortunes and hit salary business segment all together, Oh sorry I am not meeting business skills of mine here.

About trade show in new Delhi 2012-----------------

Show will have awards conferences and coffee tasting seasons, which are really rare in the city, I enjoyed the most.

Various facets of the coffee industry.

IICF Café Award
IICF Roaster Award
IICF  Curer   Award
IICF Latte Art Championship
IICF Exhibitor Award

Great show for industry, specially for north Indian market, Organizers have roped in almost all great names in coffee industry in Asia, not only India. Levers, TATA, Costa, Barista and our local filter coffee makers from Bangalore and Mysore. It is really something kind of bridge making event for marketing and coffee lover like me. Finding great FMGC brands and local brads displaying together. Even I find some great espresso coffee machine makers like Murphy and other from Europe are here,

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Very well organized show, as Hotel Lalit is good in organizing shows for long now, I have attended their wine trade show also. But coffee is something meditative and good for creative thinking as people say.

Not much in demand in New Delhi, but this city loves all type brewages available in the world. As coffee is not produced or cultivated in North part of India, where New Delhi is situated that is why it’s not among masses but classes.

Coffee and New Delhi has not much in common, except long time influence of Britshers and new time influence of chain stores like coffee restaurants, where meeting is more important than coffee.

I am also small time lover of coffee as a foodie only not a follower of coffee. But I have tasted coffee all over India and Europe that is why I thought of writing this feature.

India filter coffee from South part of nation is the best and most famous version of coffee all over world. We export 70% of our best coffee beans or otherwise we cultivate. So for me it is the great economic crops among other like green tea.

INDIAN FILTER COFFEE SIMILAR TO DRIP COFFEE MACHINE WE HAVE IN USA OR EUROPE---I HAVE IT THE SAME,

South Indian coffee is brewed with a metal device that resembles two cylindrical cups, one of which has a pierced bottom that nests into the top of the "tumbler" cup, leaving ample room underneath to receive the brewed coffee. The upper cup has two removable parts: a pierced pressing disc with a central stem handle, and a covering lid.

Any how the best place to have coffee in pure European style in the city New Delhi….Not mention Coffee shins name as it becomes more advertising oriented as we all know how is the best in the city...But I recommend Barista Delhi…..Personal choice.

1-Coffee Shop of Taj Hotel, New Delhi

2-Coffee Shop, Oberai HOTEL, New Delhi

3-Any food out let BENGALI MARKET, Central Delhi.

4-Moca...South Delhi restaurant

5-United Coffee House, Connaught Place

6-Lalit Coffee Shop, Central Delhi

FOR INDIAN FILTER COFFEE...

1—Andra Bhavan

2-Karnataka  Sanaga

3-Any South INDIAN Street shop In Karol BAGH

FAMOUS EUROPEAN COFFEE DRINK ESPRESSO COFFEE, delicious cappuccino

The name espresso is Italian in origin. It was first coined around 1900, means a cup of coffee brewed expressly for you. Today, you will often find that people incorrectly pronounce or spell it "expresso". 

Espresso can be very confusing. The BEST espresso is the coffee bean. The coffee bean is from the heart of the coffee berry. These coffee berries grow on trees in tropical climates at 2000 to 6000 feet above sea level.

Espresso coffee is a small 1 to 2 oz. shot of pressure-brewed coffee using between 6.5 and 7.5 grams (about 1 Tablespoon) of finely ground coffee. Brewing takes about 25 to 30 seconds.

Besides a shot of espresso, the most important factor in preparing a cappuccino is the texture and temperature of the milk.

The total of espresso and milk/foam make up between approximately 150–180 mL (5–6 imp fl oz; 5–6 US fl oz). Commercial coffee CAFES in the US more often serve the cappuccino as a 360 mL (13 imp fl oz; 12 US fl oz) drink or larger.

NEW DELHI NEW AGE COFFEE CULTURE DOMINATED BY CHAINS LIKE BATISTA, COFFEE CAFE DAY AND COSTA

Buzz words for young and new executives, meeting point is more in demand than coffee. But the popularity of espresso and mocha can be witnessed here; it is great to find young generation appreciates coffee, which is normally not Indian but Italian and French. It is bit expensive but really taste good, I feel it is really nice to find people shipping coffee and talking quietly, better than pub culture.

So drop in near by new age coffee hang out joints, you can also feel young their.

Another coffee joints are new age book shops and art galleries in posh south Delhi shopping arcades, like Hahz Khas, Saket and shopping malls like AMBEINCE.

You know, we should appreciate these new joints of coffee as the develop a good and clean society, friendship and companionships keep walking in…..

HISTORY OF COFFEE IN INDIA------------

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Indian South Coffee, also known as Filter Coffee is a sweet milky coffee made from dark roasted coffee  beans (70%-80%) and Chirocy20%-30%), especially popular in the southern states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The most commonly used coffee beans are Arabica and Robusta grown in the hills of Karnataka (Kodagu, Chikkamagaluru and Hassan), Kerala (Malabar region) and Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris District, Yercaud and Kodaikanal).

Outside India, a coffee drink prepared using a filter may be known as Filter Coffee or as Drip Coffee as the water passes through the grounds solely by gravity and not under pressure or in longer-term contact.

Coffee was originally introduced by Baba Budan to South India in 17th century and became very popular under the British Rule. Until the middle of the 20th century traditional households would not use granulated sugar but used jaggery or honey, instead in coffee.

Mysore State (present day Karnataka). This hill range was later named after him as the Baba Budan Hills and one can see his tomb even today by taking a short trip from Chikmagalur.

Rev. Edward Terry, chaplain to Sir Thomas Roe who was ambassador at the court of Emperor Jehangir, provides a detailed account of its usage (1616):

"Many of the people there (in India), who are strict in their religion, drink no Wine at all; but they use a Liquor more wholesome than pleasant, they call Coffee; made by a black Seed boiled in water, which turns it almost into the same colour, but doth very little alter the taste of the water: notwithstanding it is very good to help digestion, to quicken the spirits, and to cleanse the blood."

The British East India Company brought in fresh influences. David Burton, a food historian based in New Zealand writes in his book The Raj at Table (1993)

"India's first coffee house opened in Calcutta after the battle of Plassey in 1780. Soon after, John Jackson and Cottrell Barrett opened the original Madras Coffee House, which was followed in 1792 by the Exchange Coffee Tavern at the Muslim, waited at the mouth of the Madras Fort. The enterprising proprietor of the latter announced he was going to run his coffee house on the same lines as Lloyd's in London, by maintaining a register of the arrival and departure of ships, and offering Indian and European newspapers for his customers to read. Other houses also offered free use of billiard tables, recovering their costs with the high price of one rupee for a single dish of coffee."

Indian filter coffee was popularized by the India Coffee Houses run by the Coffee Board of India since mid 1940s. It became the drink of millions after the emergence of more popular Indian Coffee Houses in mid 1950s. We can read this story in the Malayalam book Coffee Housinte Katha by Nadakkal Parameswaran Pillai.

Indian filter coffee even migrated overseas in the early 20th century to Malaysia and Singapore, where kopi tarik (pulled coffee) is a close cousin of the Madrasi coffee-by-the-yard / metre, and was introduced at roadside kopi tiams run originally by Indian Muslims.

Quality of Indian coffee, from Indian coffee board

Kents: Kents is the earliest variety of Arabica, selected by an English planter of the same name during the 1920s. This variety remained popular with the planting community till the 1940s, because it was less susceptible to rust. Today, it is grown in a few areas but it is still known for its exceptional cup quality.

S.795: This is by far the most popular Arabica selection released during the 1940s with high yields, bold beans, superior quality and relative tolerance to leaf rust. This selection was developed using ‘Kents’ Arabica, known for its high quality. Even today, the S.795 is a favourite with the planters and is a widely cultivated Arabica variety. S.795 has a balanced cup with subtle flavour notes of Mocca.

Cauvery: Popularly known as Catimor, Cauvery is a descendant of a cross between ‘Caturra’ and ‘Hybrido-de-Timor’. Caturra is a natural mutant of the famous Bourbon variety. Thus, Cauvery inherited the high yielding and superior quality attributes of Caturra and the resistance of ‘Hybrido-de-Timor’.

Sln.9: Selection 9 is a derivative of a cross between an Ethiopian Arabica collection, ‘Tafarikela’, and ‘Hybrido-de-Timor’. Sln.9 has inherited all the superior cup quality traits of Tafarikela. This variety has won the Fine Cup Award for best Arabica at the ‘Flavour of India - Cupping Competition 2002’ organised by Coffee Board of India.

You know, New Delhi, has tradition of great food, drinks and celebrations. Here coffee plays important role, I was in banquet lunch last week and really enjoyed 2 cups of espresso, Indian style. This is New Delhi; you can have time, place and friends to enjoy everything with aroma and style.

So keep shipping coffee in winters, as I take in summers also with milk shake, hope to discuss these drinks in details some another time

Thanks for reading

Shailesh Sharma Pokhriyal

New Delhi,19 Jan 2012