The Coffee History

Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in the world beside the tea. Coffee usually serves as hot beverages or serves chill with sugar and some milk. But many of us don’t know the coffee history. From where does this beverages come from and how it spread all over the world.

Many stories told that the first coffee that planted were from Ethiopian. The first coffee history tells legend of Kaldi, a goatherd from Ethiopian, was the first stories that reference the story of coffee. It is said that he discovered coffee after noticing his goat became so spirited after eating berries from a tree that makes them up all night without even sleeping. He tells what he saw and spread the berries trough out the village and makes him famous with his invention.

The other story that famous about coffee discovery is from Yemen, where the Sheiks Omar was expelled from his villages and deserted into a cave. Because he feel hungry, he eat some of berries he find but somehow it taste too bitter, then he roast it to rich its flavor, but somehow it began too dry and hard. To make it soft, he boiled it and then he drank all the liquid and then he sustained for days. The news of a miracle liquid were spread all over the villages and he was ask to go back to his villages to make more the miracle liquid and made as a saint. But since, all those legend were a story told from generation from generation, the first evidence of coffee drinking was found around Mocha, Yemen and done by the Sufi Muslim. The coffee was roasted and brew like similar how we prepared on today.

In the 16^Th century, coffee has spread all over Middle East, Turkey, Northern Africa. The Yemen cultivates and grows the coffee tree on their land after they import it from Ethiopia. Since then, coffee became popular commodities and some people even try to smuggle it to take on their homeland like the story of Baba Budan that smuggle coffee bean from Yemen to India. Since then, the coffee bean has spread all over Asia include Indonesia.

From Indonesia, the Dutch India Company took coffee as one of their commodities to sale at Europe. Then after that, coffee began to spread all over Europe. The sailor from the Europe then took the coffee to plant in America, a new land that recently has grown and began as their new place. The American people, took coffee as rebellion from British government since Boston Tea Party and until now, many Americans choose coffee for breakfast. Then how about you?
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