Traveling to Vienna and Paris not only to learn more about coffee’s history but to live with coffee for more than three weeks, to explore every facet the mysterious bean has to offer, including its colonial history and the socio-cultural impact of the beverage. We will spend about equal time in each city. In hands-on workshops with local coffee professionals we will learn to make our own coffee, scrutinizing all the important parameters that are necessary to make a superb cup. Preparing coffee is a science and an art, and we will study various parameters such as grind, tamp, extraction techniques (such as espresso, pour-over, immersion), water, concentration, milk steaming and more. In addition, we will explore many of Vienna’s and Paris’s famous cultural sites such as monuments and museums.