Coffee Drinking On A Reinvention Mode

APARNA RAMALINGAM
Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd

Meetings, Marxists, forums and rallies. Coffee clubs have been hotbeds for all this and much more. Many a revolutionary idea have sprung from coffee rooms. Why, the drink itself has gone through a metamorphosis over the years. Initially, coffee was used as a medicine and then as an ingredient for wine.

Over the years, coffee drinking and coffee bars have gone in for a complete makeover. In the United States for instance, coffee outlets can be rented for special occasions, meetings, seminars or other events.

Coffee houses in India are not far behind. In New Delhi, the Vasant Kunj outlet of Cafe Coffee Day has Book Cafe on its first floor. The Book Cafe is replete with books on lifestyle, cookery, sports, management fiction, non-fiction and a special section for children.

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