Coffee history story goes like this...
The legend says that people had their first coffee cup in 7 th century, and the others claims it was happened in 9 th , but the story is the same.
Some Sheppard in Etipiopia's province Kaffa had noticed that he's goat perk up when she crops little bushes with little red fruits. He tried on himself will it helps him against slip ness. He was trilled and shares the secret with other Sheppard's. The legend does not say anything about the way from goat to pottery, but certainly it wasn't simple.
The first plantages of coffee plant were planted in Yemen. Coffee spread over the near East Asia and Africa.
When coffee came to Turkey in Istanbul people was rather go to coffee shops then to mosque, so in 1633 authorities come to an idea to close coffee shops.
Because of love to coffee, Turkish ambassador brought first coffee in Versailles in 1666. In 1690 Paris have had more than 200 coffee shops. French coffee was made by Italian from Sisily-Procope, when he had opened coffee shop in Paris in 1672 year. Everyone was drinking coffee. Voltaire drinks 50 cups of that "divine drink" as he used to say.
The coffee spread all over the Europe unstoppably.
There is another story that says that Turkish soldiers after defeat left behind bags with coffee. Very soon Wiena had over 100 coffee shops.
In Rome The Pope was worried because of new mania, he thought it was some source of black magic and he was going to forbidden that "devils drink" but he was offered to taste it before. He was trilled and he proclaimed coffee of "heavenly drink"
Instant coffee came to world in1901 by Japanese chemistry Satori Kato. 5 years later the procedure was enhanced by American chemistry G. Washington, so in First World War coffee become official drink of American soldiers (before that it was rum).
Coffee bean growth all over the world, so we get the finest coffee in Australia, Jamaica, Hawaii, Portorico and Mexico. |
