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COFFEE CHRONICLES #1
ORIGINS
Coffee comes from the highland of Abyssinia (nowadays called Ethiopia). According to a legend, a goat herder named Kali accidentally stumbled upon coffee while observing his goats strange behaviour after chewing on coffee tree leaves. He brought back the magical cherries home, and since coffee has been fully integrated in the Ethiopian culture. Ethiopians drink ritually coffee in groups multiple times a day.
COFFEE & THE ARAB WORLD
It is hard to pinpoint how coffee appeared in the Arab world. It’s fair to assume than when Ethiopia conquered Yemen (fact that many ignore!) they brought along coffee beans with them. It was first adopted by Sufi monks as it helped for meditation. Muslim pilgrims helped spread coffee in Turkey, North Africa, Persia and Egypt. Coffeehouses were banned by rulers, as many of them involved gambling and prostitution. In Constantinople (Istanbul) people caught drinking coffee were thrown in the Bosporus. It seems like ruler were more afraid of the gathering power of coffee. In Turkey, a woman could divorce a man if the man couldn’t provide enough coffee.
COFFEE, THE WEST & SMUGGLERS
Soon after the Ottomans occupied Yemen in the 16th century, coffee became rapidly one of their most important export. No coffee was allowed to leave the port of Mocha. One muslim pilgrim managed to smuggle beans to Mysore southern India. offee was highly exotic, and reserved to the upper class. The Italians were the first one to appreciate coffee through trade with the Ottoman. The first coffeehouse opened in Venice, and became a symbol of descent companionship, and intellectual conversations. The Dutch, who were dominating the shipping trade, got their hands on coffee too, and started cultivating it in the East Indies (Bali, Sumatra, etc). France followed later on, with the help of the Turkish ambassador introducing coffee to mundane parties in Paris. Coffee attracted intellectual figures such as Voltaire, and Rousseau. Finally a space where men & women could interact without alcohol.
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