What Happened to Coffee in America?
5 February; Author: Mrs. Coffee
What Happened to Coffee in America?
The following year, 1901, the first soluble “instant” coffee, invented by a Japanese-American chemist Satori Kato in Chicago, was introduced to the American public, but it was not received well. Five years later, George Constant Washington, an English chemist, noticed a powdery substance on this silver coffee carafe. He then created and marketed a mass-produced “instant coffee” he called Red E Coffee. He marketed it in England and the U.S. Now that instant coffee is readily available you didn’t need a coffee maker. Today, all you need is an electric tea kettle full of hot water. Another kind of change was made to coffee; Monday you will learn what that was.