Barako Coffee Allays Ailments on Elementary's You Do It To Yourself

Summary: Barako coffee perhaps appeals more than Chinese herbs to an ailing consulting detective on Elementary's You Do It To Yourself Nov. 29, 2012.

Distinctively-flavored kapeng barako (Barako coffee) is a coffee varietal cultivated in the Philippines from Liberica coffee (Coffea liberica); roasted, characteristically asymmetrical Liberica beans from the west-central Philippine island of Mindoro; June 15, 2010: HaztechGuy at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Barako coffee perhaps assists in alleviating feverish ailments for which a consulting detective on Elementary procedural drama television series episode You Do It To Yourself Dec. 6, 2012, abhors accessing Chinese herbs.

Director Phil Abraham and writer Peter Blake bring body temperatures between 100 and 101 degrees Fahrenheit (37.77 and 38.33 degrees Celsius) into Season One's ninth episode. The consulting detective's feverish condition causes 11th Precinct Detective Marcus Bell (Jon Michael Hill) to consider of Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) that "You look awful." Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) draws for diagnosis and treatment upon her descent from maternal Chinese ancestors and from her duties as doctor and as sober companion.

Joan explains, "Well, you asked for coffee, but you got tea," when Sherlock, down with unspecified discomforts, exclaims, "Ugh, what is that? I asked for coffee."

Joan fingers Chinese traditional herbs from Chinatown stalls as furnishing her mother's tea for childhood ailments when Sherlock fumes, "No, I'm British. This is not tea."

Joan gives no names for the Chinese herbs that her mother gathered into get-well teas even though Sherlock's grimaces and grunts guide viewers toward bitter tastes. Nothing hints of the coffee variety that Sherlock hopes to have instead of healing Chinese herbs even though two Southeast Asian countries harvest bitter, healing coffee. Malaysia and the Philippines include among imported, introduced varieties intended for commercial, local and tourist markets Liberian coffee trees (Coffea liberica) from Liberia in central-east Africa.

Barako coffee from Liberian coffee tree beans sometimes jar the taste sensibilities of coffee judges of the three main varieties for commercial production and international markets.

Barako coffee (from Tagalog kapeng barako, "manly coffee," from Spanish café varraco, "coffee [of the] wild boar"), kindles bitter, smoky tastes of dark chocolate and espresso.

Barako coffee lodges aniseed-like scents and tastes whether it lacks creamers, honey or sweeteners or whether the Philippines' traditional muscovado sugar laces the dark, rancid-like liquid. Muscovado (from Portuguese açúcar mascavado and Spanish azúcar mascabado, "despised sugar"), as brown, unrefined sugar with high mineral and molasses contents, modifies bitter barako coffee bitterness. Barako coffee and rums that nurse muscovado sugar net the molasses scents and tastes of that cane sugar's calcium, iron, magnesium, mineral salts, phosphorus and potassium.

Barako coffee operates as antioxidant, energizer, immunity booster and soup substitute in rice dishes and as energizer and immunity booster in body scrubs at Philippine spas.

Liberian coffee beans traditionally or, in the twenty-first century, Liberian with arabica (Coffea arabica) or excelsa (Coffea excelsa) coffee beans produce barako coffee in the Philippines.

Franciscan friars in Lipa in 1730 and Macasaet family members in Barangay Pinagtung-Ulan after 1800 qualify as Batangas Province's Liberian coffee tree and barako coffee pioneers. Hemileia vastatrix coffee leaf rust in 1889 and twentieth-century robusta (Coffea canephora) varieties restricted Liberian coffee tree ranges in Batangas and, realized since 1876, in Cavite. Barako coffee strained from Liberian coffee tree beans or Liberian and arabica or excelsa coffee tree beans in steaming water shows up for locals and tourists.

Barako coffee with aniseed and dark chocolate flavors and espresso-like flavors and functions perhaps tempts Sherlock more than Joan's mother's anecdotal teas treated with Chinese herbs.

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) prefers to respond to Detective Marcus Bell's (Jon Michael Hill) homicide alert rather than nurse his 101-degree fever at home in CBS Elementary's You Do It To Yourself (season 1 episode 9): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Dec. 7, 2012

Acknowledgment

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Distinctively-flavored kapeng barako (Barako coffee) is a coffee varietal cultivated in the Philippines from Liberica coffee (Coffea liberica); roasted, characteristically asymmetrical Liberica beans from the west-central Philippine island of Mindoro; June 15, 2010: HaztechGuy at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liberica_coffee_beans,_roasted.jpg

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) prefers to respond to Detective Marcus Bell's (Jon Michael Hill) homicide alert rather than nurse his 101-degree fever at home in CBS Elementary's You Do It To Yourself (season 1 episode 9): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Dec. 7, 2012, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663/201308493327603

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