History Of Coffee

Shepherd, goats, and the discovery of coffee

The most famous legend of Ethiopia, dating from around 800 years, tells of the shepherd Kaldim, which dealt with goats grazing on the Abyssinian Highland. One night our hero was surprised unusual behavior of the herd: some goat jumped, and even the oldest of them were running like crazy. Surprised, the shepherd had acted like a modern naturalist. Rolled up their sleeves, went to the place where goats grazed the previous day. There he found a peculiar greyish bark of the tree, shining leaves and white flowers. On their thin branches glittered red berries. Kaldi ate some of them and soon felt a sudden revival of body and clarity of mind.

Moved by the discovery went to a nearby monastery where a monk by the name of crushed berries Chadely coffee tree, and then poured boiling water over them. It was he who prepare it first cup of coffee and spread the knowledge of the special properties of red berries. The monk did not take because of his knowledge to the grave, but gave it to the other brothers that they are able to maintain the freshness of mind during a very lengthy and exhaustive meditation.

Omar, an angel and a tree coffee tree

Yet another story where the action takes place in Arabia, is perhaps the least credible, but beautiful, reminiscent of an episode from the tale of a thousand and one nights. One day, Sheikh Ali ben Omar decided to go to the city Mocha. He was accompanied by his mentor Schade, who died tragically but during the journey. A distraught Omar decided to go back, but an angel appeared to him, who persuaded him to continue the expedition.

Faithful to the voice from heaven, Omar arrived Mochy, which at that time there was a plague. Pious sheikh wybBagaB Allaah many people's lives and even saved the princess from death itself, which - as is often the case in the Arab tales - take hold of his heart. Omar angry king condemned to exile, and this surely would die of thirst, if the deceased did not send a mentor to help him with the underworld. It was a colorful bird that has a sweet singing lured Sheik. When he took a few steps forward before his eyes grew speckled with white flowers and red berries tree ...
As is well known legends are often beautiful, but rarely true. As mentioned above, the stories of Kaldim, and the sheik Kaddim Umar But there is 'grain' of truth.

BEGINNINGS coffee ROUTE

Before we went to Europe, coffee, coffee tree seeds by over a thousand years pomogaBy people of many cultures in bearing the hardships of everyday life. I Etiopczykom (Sabejczykom) and the Arabs have the palm of priority properties to the discovery of coffee, and cultivate the habit of drinking.

Ethiopia

The real home of coffee is Ethiopia. Already about 575 years coffee trees were covered steep slopes Abyssinian highlands. It is the mythical land of Rastafarians first coffee plant was cultivated and consumed coffee in the form of hot drink (up to now the most popular brand of coffee is coming from Ethiopia Arabica). In the ninth century, drinking coffee in the Ethiopian tukulach are based on elaborate ceremony, which could take up to several hours. Thanks to the beginnings of the history of coffee accompanied by a fundamental right for staro|ytnich culture of hospitality. From Ethiopia is also related to etymology of the word 'coffee', which probably comes from the name of the city of Kaffa, located on the River Omo.

Saudi

Soon, the Arab traders spread of coffee on the Arabian peninsula and the areas where Islam reached there hit the habit of drinking coffee. Probably in the twelfth century, discovered a way to enhance its flavor by roasting beans in the fire. Already a hundred years later in the Yemeni coffee palace gardens grown on a massive scale, even though the Arabs closely guarded the secret of his - all kalifaty ban the export of raw force of this valuable crop plants (corn sold only after drying). In this way, up to 1600 from the coffee cherry benefited only the world of Islam.

Arabs appreciated the stimulating effect of coffee and is often ascribed to its healing properties. This agrees with the etymology of the Arabic word qahwa (Kawaha), which means "one who stops at bedtime," or "that which floats." Not only an exceptional impact on the operation of the intellect, contributed to the enormous popularity of coffee in Arabia, but also the strict laws of the Koran, which forbade the consumption of drugs. Unlike alcohol, coffee could be not only drunk but also had religious significance. Drunk it during prayers in mosques, and even before the tomb of Mohammed. Muslim attachment to coffee is well illustrated by the Turkish legend says that the coffee was offered to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, while the other had to sleep tired prayers.

Turkey

Turks owe the world's first coffee house, opened in 1475 in the former Constantinople. He did such a success that soon similar premises were built in the area from Cairo to Alexandria and from Medina to Baghdad. Coffee houses to Arabs serve as a meeting place, discussion, telling long stories and listening to music, that all these pleasures of life, which tastes even better with a cup of hot coffee. After several years there has been even to the fact that the cafes were bursting at the seams, and mosques pozastawaBy empty. As you can see history repeats itself, as evidenced by the crowds besieging supermarkets on Sunday afternoons.

Not only did the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 gave the symbolic beginning of a new era, but also the opening of the first coffee house started 'small revolution in the history of coffee. Since then, the Venetian period, Viennese and Parisian cafes came faster and faster.

COFFEE IN EUROPE

The first author of the mention of coffee was a Prospero of Padua, who in 1580 described the unflagging popularity of this beverage in the Ottoman Empire. He was the forerunner of modern travelers in search of fame and fortune penetrated the Levant area and getting to the far reaches of the known world. Undoubtedly, their attention riveted 'coffee houses' and peddlers coffee seller in the streets of many Arab cities. Imported by their meager supplies were not enough, however, to the popularity of stimulants.

Old World met up for coffee only in the seventeenth century. Previously, although wine from Saudi functioned in the minds of Europeans, their knowledge about this drink was limited to the prejudices and biases. O Passi bad coffee settled the hostile relations with Muslims and Christians justified to assign the origin of Satan. It was not until Clement VIII led to the rehabilitation of this great drink for a blessing. In this way, through active commercial and papieskimu szlakom support, the way was open for coffee.

Italy

The first ports to which supplied coffee beans were the ports of Venice and Marseilles. Venice Coffee loaded ship arrived as early as 1615, but the emergence of the first 'coffee house' had to wait many more years. The most famous Italian cafe opened in October of 1720 years Venetian Florian Francesconi. The 'Cafe Florian' served the best coffee and wine pochodzce from the Orient, Cyprus and Greece. Following the Turkish custom, cafe quickly became a place of social life where gossip, discuss politics, morality and literature. For the Cafe Florian looked into include Casanova, Lord Byron, Goethe, Proust, Rousseau, Modigliani, and Rubenstein. The huge popularity of coffee among the Venetians and residents of other cities has led to the domination of the dictionary by Italian coffee. To this day, going to a cafe to order most of espresso, caffe latte or cappuccino.

England

The British were the first European nation to the coffee he had done more than a habit. It was at Oxford in 1650 a Turkish Jew Jacob opened his first coffee shop that is similar to the Venice Cafe Florian became the nucleus of the coming fashion. Already in 1652 the next cafe was founded in London in less than a dozen years later, in Albion, there was more than a few hundred cafe (in the seventeenth century in London there were more than it is now). Some coffee houses specialize in serving certain score: and so to 'Jonathan's Coffee House' went stockbrokers, and the 'Edward Lloyd's Coffee House' brokers and ship owners.

Like the Turks, who called the coffee houses 'schools of wisdom', British students in the cafeterias used to say "penny universities", which means "penny universities". No wonder that neither the Turkish sultan, or the English kings were not in the taste of coffee shops, where flourished under the free and unfettered by any authority. According to historians, this is why Charles II decided to close However there cafes, which, as you can guess, it was a task far beyond the possibility of the English monarchy. Coffee overcame all his opponents.

France

For the French had established coffee through the port of Marseilles, but in the first half of the seventeenth century it was treated just as a curiosity. Only an intensive promotional campaign of Suleiman Aga-ambassador to the Ottoman Army at the court of Louis XIV has contributed to increasing its popularity. Then members of the court of Versailles began snobowa the connoisseurs of black drink, and even the Louis XV cultivate coffee plants in their garden greenhouses (plants of the Jardin des Plantes are the ancestors of most kawowców grown Central and South America).

Soon began to form the first French cafes-the most famous of them was a cafe at the de l'Ancienne Comedie-founded by Francois Procope'a dei Coltelli. There were offered not only coffee but also the Viennese ice cream, syrups, liqueurs and wines. Prokop House coffee has become a model for other Parisian cafes, which arose like mushrooms after rain. On the eve of the French Revolution in Paris, there were about 2000! As in England, café became a place of gathering intelligence grudging power. For many of them looked in Danton, Marat and Robespierre. However, not only the revolutionaries and the Jacobins found an pleasure in drinking this delicacy. It seems that there would be no coffee in the French Enlightenment, just as it stimulated the minds of such as Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.

Austria

12 September 1683 the Turkish vizier Kara Mustafa was only thinking about their survival. Stretching to the horizon remains of his army, testified to the battle in which Polish hetman Jan Sobieski asked him crushing defeat. For Kara Mustafa Battle of Vienna was a shame that none of the Sultan wybaczyBby not (and do not forgive: Kara Mustafa was strangled green cord). In particular, in addition to honor Mustafa Kara lost something equally valuable: on the battlefield was left an incredible amount of coffee. At first it was thought that this is the "Turkish corn", or feed for horses, but among the Polish troops was a nobleman from Franciszek Jerzy Kulczycki Sambora, who well knew the Turkish customs. Through the merits, which gave the Polish army, Jan III Sobieski allowed him to retain a large part of the over 300 bags of coffee. Enterprising Poles set up the first coffee shop in Vienna called "At the Blue Bottle." In addition to delicious brewed Turkish coffee on the way, Kulczycki gave the visitors the cookie in the form of a crescent to commemorate the victory of Polish forces and save Vienna.

Poland

For the Polish coffee hit the seventeenth century through trade contacts with the Orient. From the beginning of the reference was to her suspicious, since the Turks came from the infidels in the country, which he regarded as a bulwark of Christianity, could not enjoy a good reputation. As he wrote Andrew Morsztyn:

In Malcie[my, remember; cost kafy,
Drink for baszów Murat, Mustafa,
And what is the Turks. But so szkarady
Drink, so ugly poison and venom,
What it does not release any of saliva through his teeth,
Let no Christian filthy mouth!

Only a desire to imitate Western models break bad aura surrounding the coffee. Contributed to the development of overseas plantations and the growing popularity of coffee in France, England, Austria and Germany. In the eighteenth century, through the Wettin, nobility and the Polish nobility began to pour in buckets of each beverage. Suddenly, drinking coffee has become fashionable and the prices went up drastically. Around 1736 years behind the Iron gate in Warsaw courtier of King Augustus III opened the first Polish cafe. It was clear from the relative decline in prices of coffee and bring it to wider masses of society.

Otherwise, the matter was with the culture of coffee drinking in the homes of the gentry. The courts of the richest coffee roasting oven used for special (so treasured coffee freshness), and even the Turks employed as waiters.
After nearly four centuries of adventures in modern civilization, coffee became the world's most popular beverage. He is currently second only to petroleum product and world trade annually consumes 400 million cups of 'black gold'.

By: Novella Booker

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