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Originally the coffee plant grew naturally in Ethiopia east Africa. The effect of coffee beans on behavior was noticed by a sheep herder from caffa Ethiopia named Kaldi as he tended his sheep. He noticed that the sheep became hyperactive after eating the red “cherries” from a certain plant when they changed pastures. He tried a few by himself and was soon as overactive as his herd. The story relates that a Monk happens by and scolded him for “partaking of the devils fruit”. However, the Monks soon discovered that this fruit from the shiny green plant could help stay awake for their prayers.
Prior to 1000 A.D: members of the galla tribe in Ethiopia noticed that they get an energy boost when they eat a certain berry, ground up and mix with animal fat. 1000 A.D: Arab traders bring coffee back to their homeland and cultivate the plant for the first time on plantations, they began to boil the beans, creating a drink they call “qahwa”. 1453: Coffee is introduced to the Constantinople by Ottoman Turks, the world’s first coffee shops, KIVA HAN, open there in 1475. 1600: Coffee, introduced to the west by Italian traders. 1607: Captain John Smith helps to found the colony of Virginia at Jamestown, it’s believed that he introduced coffee to north America. 1645: First coffeehouse opens in England. 1672: First coffeehouse opens in Paris. 1690: With a coffee plant smuggle out of the port of Mocha Yemen, the Dutch become the first to transport and cultivate coffee commercially, in Ceylon and in their East-Indian colony – Java, source of the brews nickname. 1621: First coffeehouse opens in Berlin. The rest was history; today most of east African countries produce coffee. H.Jibril |
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