Cini Coffee

A quick glimpse of pedestrians and shops along Cambridge streets might lead you to think that most of us spend a good deal of our time drinking some form of coffee. Cafes fill our storefronts, and every other passerby seems to be carrying a cup of something caffeinated, wherever they are headed.

It’s true that the United States can lay claim to having the largest coffee company in the world (no surprise: Starbucks) but we are well outpaced by the likes of Albania for the most coffeehouses per 100,000 people (654 versus our measly 19.7) and absolutely smoked by Finland for annual consumption (a whopping 12 kilograms per capita there versus 4.4 here, the equivalent of five to eight cups a day compared with two to three.)