{"id":287,"date":"2023-07-11T14:50:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.binary90.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2024-02-22T15:35:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T15:35:23","slug":"celebrating-coffee-during-americas-birth-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.binary90.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/celebrating-coffee-during-americas-birth-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Coffee During America\u2019s Birth Month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This year, America celebrated its 247th birthday, but did you know that coffee has been one of America\u2019s favorite beverages for even longer? In fact, there is evidence that coffee came to the colonies<\/a> as early as the days when Captain John Smith<\/a> and others helped to found Jamestown.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 1670, Dorothy Jones<\/a> became the first person licensed to trade coffee in the colonies, and later, drinking coffee came to be seen as a patriotic act<\/a>. Choosing coffee over tea (and dumping tea into the Boston Harbor) was associated with some of America\u2019s Founding Fathers: George Washington not only imported beans from Yemen, but even attempted<\/a> to grow coffee (not so successfully) at Mount Vernon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

From those early days, coffee has cemented itself as a staple in American culture. Today, two-thirds of Americans enjoy coffee each day (per our National Coffee Data Trends<\/a> report), drinking an estimated 491 million cups of coffee daily.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among American coffee aficionados, we can find some mega-stars to add to our list of American coffee icons. <\/p>\n