The origin of coffee
The story of the first cup of coffee in the world
Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world after oil, and as a result of the great demand and the great controversy that was going on around it, many opinions and theories emerged about the origin of coffee, and every country seeks to attribute the discovery of coffee to itself.
The word "coffee" entered the English language in 1582 through the Dutch appellation "koffie", which was taken from "kahve" in the Ottoman Turkish language, which was taken from the Arabic language "coffee". It originally referred to a type of wine "light red berries", which The Arab lexicographers derive its origin from the verb “qaha”, which means not to be hungry because of its effect on suppressing the appetite, and the word coffee goes back to the Arabic word “strong” where the strength and energy that a person feels when drinking coffee, it was also known in the Arabic language as “coffee”. Ben", which is called dark-colored drinks.
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The history of coffee dates back to the tenth century and perhaps to an earlier time, according to a number of reports and legends related to the first to use it. It is believed that the original home of coffee is Ethiopia. Also, the oldest evidence of drinking coffee and knowing the coffee tree dates back to the fifteenth century in the Sufi monasteries in Yemen, and by the sixteenth century It reached the rest of the Middle East, southern India, Persia, Turkey and North Africa, then spread to the rest of Europe, Italy, Southeast Asia, and then to the United States of America.
Ethiopia is considered the original origin of the coffee-making culture, as it was discovered in the ninth century, and the population depends for their work on coffee cultivation, where nearly 12 million people participate in its cultivation, and coffee is an essential part of Ethiopian culture, as it appeared in many expressions that speak of life People, food, and evidence of this is the most common Ethiopian coffee known as "Buna Dabo Nao", which means "coffee is our bread" and this means that coffee has a major role in the diet of Ethiopians and is considered a main source of livelihood in Ethiopia.
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There are many mythical accounts of the origin of coffee, but the most famous theory was discovered by “goats.” In a small village in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian shepherd “Kaldi” noticed that the goats, whenever they eat of a certain plant, which is the red berries, are exaggeratedly active, so he decided to experiment That himself was surprised by the bitter taste, but he noticed that he became very active and stayed awake for continuous days, which made him inform the head of the local monastery about the story of this strange plant and its effect, which came to him with the idea of drying and boiling these grains and making a drink like the rest of the drinks known at that time, since he started drying The beans were on fire, a strong coffee smell appeared, and then he started peeling the beans, dissolving them in water, and making the first cup of coffee in history.
In a second theory that the origin of the discovery of coffee was in Yemen, it was discovered by a sheikh named “Omar” who was retreating in a cave in the “Mocha” desert and from hunger he would eat any existing plant and among these plants was the coffee plant, and he noticed its magical effect on him and his activity, which made him This discovery has been hidden for many years.
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One of these narrations is also related to the right-wing Sufi "Ghtul Akbar Nur al-Din Abi al-Hassan al-Shazly" when he traveled to Ethiopia.
And coffee reached southern Arabia and began to be cultivated in Yemen, and by the sixteenth century it became known in Persia, Egypt, Syria and Turkey, and soon spread in Europe, then spread through cafes in England, Austria, France and Germany and became a major drink in breakfast, and competition began to grow coffee because of its popularity.
5 countries sit on the throne of coffee production. Although the history of coffee did not mention any of these countries that coffee trees appeared, they now possess the largest production in the world of coffee. At the top of these countries comes Brazil, where it tops the list with a production of about 3.165 million tons. Then Vietnam comes in second place with a production of about 1.770 million tons, then Colombia comes in third place with a production of 840 thousand tons, then Indonesia, which produces about 654 thousand tons, and finally Honduras, which is estimated to produce nearly 462,000 tons annually.
In the latter half of the seventeenth century, the Dutch were also able to obtain seedlings of coffee and they owned a huge coffee trade.
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