The Discovery Of Coffee
The Discovery Of Coffee
The legendary story of coffee begins from the Ethiopian Highlands around the year 800. A goat Shepherd named Kaldi, observe the gembalaannya goat was fond of eating some kind of berries that makes the goat goat-so much more excited for a while. He also observed that after eating the berries, kambing-kambingnya do not want to rest or sleep in the evening. Kaldi then tried to take these berries himself and he turned out – experience the same thing.
A story of experience came to the monastery of Kaldi. The monks went on to perform experiment making beverages from berries. "Herb" produced was able to make them stay vigil so can still write and pray late into the night. Thus the beginning of the coffee begins to spread throughout the world.
Beginning of the cultivation of coffee in Arab lands
Cultivating coffee and trading commenced from the Arabian peninsula. Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries have coffee grown, harvested and traded for consumption in the whole land of Egypt, Syria and Turkey. In that time Yemen was the main producer of coffee and the Arab nation carefully keeps the coffee plantations are increasingly valued.
When coffee reached the American colonies, was initially not as successful as in Europe, because it is considered less can substitute for alcohol. However, during the revolutionary war, the demand for coffee increased quite high, until the dealer must open up and to raise the price of supplies dramatically; partly this is because based on adverse pesediaan of tea by the merchants United Kingdom. The interest of Americans to grow coffee in the early 19th century, following the onset of the war of 1812, in which the import of tea left off provisional access, and also because of the growing technology of making soft drinks, then the position of coffee as an everyday commodity in America strengthened.
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