Where in the world was coffee first cultivated, roasted, and drank?!
Where in the world was coffee first cultivated, roasted, and drank?
Answers:
ethiopia/Somolia it is native to the region
It was the imported to Yemen where the Arabs perfected and spread it's use but closely controlled the supply
coffee was much more than tea originally especially in England.
Eventually some fertile beans were smuggled out and where brought to the new world colonies or European powers around the Caribbean and eventually south America. Today most of the worlds coffee comes from central and south America
Coffee can be traced at least as early as the 9th century, in the highlands of Ethiopia. From there it spread to Egypt and Yemen, and by the fifteenth century had reached Persia, Egypt, Turkey, and northern Africa.
Hi Felix
I found this site on line very interesting history of coffee and more facts...
http://www.cybercoffee.com.au
I used to work at a coffee shop and enjoyed everything about it the people, making the drinks, learning something each day about the subject.....inventing drinks with different syrup combinations...it's so addictive....just the whole "coffee culture" there are books about coffee....clothes to wear about coffee....towels for the kitchen with coffee beans and cups imprinted on them....coffee candy ....coffee cakes....coffee ice cream ..you name it! COFFEE RULES....
Enjoy....here's to you a toast!
Drink up til the cup is dry...don't stick your finger in your eye!
from the old barista in the USA...(married to a Felix) lol