There are many legends to how coffee spread into Europe
He tried the beans himself and soon found himself frolicking with his flock
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The Coffee Plant
Is a woody perennial evergreen, that belongs the Rubiaceae family, there are two main species cultivated today
Coffee was spread to Turkey through the Sufi’s who used the coffee to help keep them stay awake during devotional exercises performed all night
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Coffee’s True Origin
Coffee
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Origins of Coffee
Coffee drinking first became popular in Yemen in the 15th century
Coffee derives its name from Arabic
Qahwah is the Arabic word for
Capricorn, coffee is grown within the Tropics How did coffee get to all these locations?
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The Spread of Coffee
Coffee began to leave Africa via two trade routes, one located at Masawa, a city in Ethiopia located on the Red Sea and down the Blue Nile to Khartoum
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Where is Coffee Grown?
The top ten coffee producers are highlighted in yellow Brazil makes up a third of this production and is by far
the largest producer in the coffee producing market The Bean Belt- bounded by the Tropics of Cancer and
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Yemenite Sufi Circles
Coffee first became popular in Yemenite Sufi circles who began to refer to coffee as wine because like wine it also dulls the appetite and
Coffee is not a native plant to Arabia
It is a native plant of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and can be found growing wild and cultivated
From Ethiopia it was brought to Arabia and a variety of legends exist to how coffee was discovered
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Coffee Legends
Around 800 A.D. coffee was said to be discovered by an Ethiopian goatherd whose name was Kaldi
Kaldi noticed his goats had more energy and were dancing from shrub to shrub eating the cherry-red berries that contained the coffee bean
Coffee arabica-accounts for 70-80% of the
world’s production
Coffee canephora- known as Robusta
coffee and is more resilient than Arabica shrubs, but does not produce the same taste that is considered inferior to that of Arabica Coffee bean development-video
coffee and Turkish influence resulted in pronunciation as
qahveh Italian origin? Caffe but is
derived from Turkish, which derives from Arabic Qahwah is the name given to coffee in Arabic but means ‘wine’
Coffee is not said to have spread outside of Africa and Arabia until the 1600s and Arabia was known to make export beans infertile by boiling them
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Coffee in Europe
therefore was called qahwah
Coffee became the replacement for wine and Sufi’s transferred the meaning “wine” to “coffee” and introduced it further into Cairo