The History Of Coffee Origins
Coffee has come a long way from being a
little known beverage that was said to
be accidentally discovered by a
goatherder a long, long time ago. The
origins of coffee as a beverage can’t
exactly be pinpointed. What has been
accepted of its discovery was
established in a popular myth that the
coffee discovery began around the 9th
century.
As the story goes, a young Ethiopian
goatherder accidentally discovered that
the coffee berries from which his goats
had been eating began to have
interesting side effects. Upon eating
the berries, the goats seemed to jump
around more often, seemingly having a
sudden burst of energy.
And as the story went, the goatherder
brought the strange berries to the
village elders, believing that they may
have magical properties. Upon boiling
them into a brew, the elders stumbled
upon the berries’ stimulating effects
and began consuming them on a regular
basis. Thus, as the story goes, came the
birth of coffee as a beverage.
The story may have some basis since it
is known to day that the first coffee
berries originated from Ethiopia and
began to spread as the Ethiopians began
trading with the Arabs, spreading the
coffee influence eastward.
The Arabs began to take coffee as a
highly regarded plant that they closely
guarded being exported outside the
Islamic world at that time. The Arabs
prevented the possible transplantation
of coffee by boiling or roasting them.
After centuries of closely guarding the
spread of coffee cultivation, the Dutch
were able to bring some coffee beans
with them to Asia and transplanted them
in the fertile soils of Java, Indonesia
sometime in the 1600’s. The began the
eventual spread of the coffee plant
cultivation all over the world.
It was sometime around the 17th century
that the amazing berries were able to
find their way onto the tables of the
nobles in Europe. Eventually, coffee
became a common privilege among the
masses and the very first coffee houses
were finally established in Austria,
Italy and England.
By the 18th century, the French were
able to introduce the plant in the
Americas where it has widely grown into
a highly valued crop. That tradition
still is being continued today.
Currently, coffee is being grown on five
continents and has become one of the
most traded commodities on the world
market today. It was a slow process for
the lowly coffee bean to become one of
the most highly regarded of plants known
today.
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Coffee has come a long way from being a little known
beverage that was said to be accidentally discovered by a
goatherder a long, long time ago. The origins of coffee as a
beverage can’t exactly be pinpointed. What has been accepted
of its discovery was established in a popular myth that the
coffee discovery began around the 9th century.
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