Since the Boston Tea Party, Americans have been crazy for coffee, choosing it as their caffeine fix. But obviously that’s not the origin of java. Naturally, the history of coffee goes back much earlier.
A video that goes back to the very first mug of coffee ever prepared and drunk, and then it traces the expansion of coffee worldwide. We all read the Ethiopian legend which says the goat herder Kaldi uncovered the power of the coffee beans. But what happened after that?
So get out your Chemex, grind some beans, boil some water, and sit down to watch this history of coffee with a cup of your own.
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According to the tale, the energizing benefits of the coffee bean were first found by a goat herdsman called Kaldi, who lived on the Ethiopian plateau way back throughout the 9th century.
One day Kaldi observed that after his heard had foraged on the cherry of the coffee plant they appeared to possess boundless energy, absolutely more than the rest of his animals. As the story goes, this left them also invigorated to drop off to sleep in the evening, as their packages of power had them bounding all over the place.
A short history
After Kaldi saw how " alert" his goats became after consuming the coffee berries, he went to the regional monastery to let the monks know. A monk developed a brew from the berries and managed to keep up much later praying.News of this brand-new mixture spread into Egypt and right into the Arabian peninsula, where coffee traveled east and west, lastly ending up in southeast Asia and the Americas. And it's been prominent ever since.
However if we are to consider facts only, and not legends, the earliest confirmed evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree is from the early 15th century, in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen, spreading quickly to Mecca and Medina. By the 16th century, it had actually reached the remainder of the Middle East, South India (Karnataka), Persia, Turkey, the Horn of Africa, and northern Africa. Coffee after that infected the Balkans, Italy, and to the rest of Europe, in addition to Southeast Asia and despite the bans imposed throughout the 15th century by religious leaders in Capital and Cairo, and later on by the Catholic Church.
Etymology
It turns out the term "coffee" originate from Arabic. The word got in the English language in 1582 via the Dutch koffie, borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish kahve, consequently borrowed from the Arabic qahwah.There is an even more intriguing hypothesis of the beginning of the word, which you can check out on Wikipedia here.
Modern Coffee History
The modern times race for comfort and efficiency realized that individuals are "losing" too much time making coffee. This is how instant coffee was created. David Strang, a New Zealander developed it in 1889. Freeze-dried coffee was invented in 1938.Decaffeinated coffee was developed by Ludwig Roselius in 1903, filling a requirement for individuals that are sensitive to caffeine.
The coffee filter, the foundation of the most prominent coffee developing technique, the drip coffee, was created by Melitta Bentz in 1908.
Achille Gaggia developed the modern-day coffee maker in 1946. The first pump-driven coffee maker was made in 1960.
Today coffee is still one of the world's most favored beverages. Brazil is still the globe's largest producer of coffee.