One thing is certainly there is origin, and here are interested to review the history of coffee drinks, from the bitter beans into delicious drink. Who knows how many centuries ago, one of Ethiopia Partama tried eating coffee beans. From there is
the origin of expensive a cup coffee drinks.
Coffee is the kind of drink that comes from the processing and extraction of the coffee bean plant. The word coffee itself comes from the Arabic Qahwah which means strength, because at first the coffee is used as a high-energy food. The word qahwah again changed into Kahveh derived from Turkish and then changed again to Koffie in Dutch. The use of the word koffie immediately absorbed into the Indonesian language into the word coffee is known today.
History records that the discovery of coffee as a nutritious drink and energetic first discovered by the nation of Ethiopia in Africa about 3000 years ago. Coffee then continues to grow to this day to be one of the most popular beverages in the world is consumed by many people.
History of Early Discovery of Coffee
Coffee beans era of discovery began around the year 800 BC. At that time, many people in Africa, especially the Ethiopians, who ate beans mixed with animal fat and wine to meet the protein and energy needs of the body. The discovery of coffee itself happens by accident when a shepherd watching a flock of goats goat herds is maintained even after the sun goes down after eating a kind of berries. The shepherds had seen the goat always jumping around every time he ate seeds from a plant that later called coffee.
Herders are then followed this by consuming goat trail of coffee beans is to boil it in boiling water and he found her to be fresh. His discovery is then immediately he told the citizens of his city, and many are those who follow what the shepherds said, but the pastor said the strength of the coffee is from Satan.
This habit then continues to grow and spread to many countries in Africa, but the method of presentation are still using conventional methods. It was only a few hundred years later, the coffee beans are brought through the Red Sea and arrived in Saudi with a more advanced method of presentation.
Progress Coffee in Arabic
From Ethiopia, coffee was taken to Arabia. In the 11th century the Arabs have a more advanced civilization than the African nation at the time, not just cooking beans, but also boiled to take the juice. At that time, coffee became the main beverage in Muslim Countries. Popularity of coffee can be caused by two things: for giving effect to the body shape and instead drink wine or alcohol which is forbidden by Islam.
Coffee popularity also helped increase with the spread of Islam at that time until it reaches the region of North Africa, the Mediterranean, and India. Story odyssey Muslims can not be separated from the coffee, wherever Muslims spread their religion, the coffee is always taken. So that in the 13th century coffee had spread to North Africa, Mediterranean Countries and India. In the 14th century and 15, coffee culture has spread in Turkey, Egypt, Syrians, Persians.
Until the 16th century the entire coffee production is still dominated by Arabs. However, at this time, there is no cultivation of coffee outside the Arab region since the Arabs always export beans infertile (infertile) by cooking and drying it first. This led to coffee cultivation is not possible. It was only in the 1600s, a pilgrim India managed to bring out of the fertile coffee beans Makkah and grow in many areas outside the Arab world.
Coffee Spread Throughout the World
Europe knows no coffee until the 17th century when the Italians for the first time managed to bring the beans to a Venezia (1615). They get a supply of coffee beans from the Turks. The presence of coffee in Italy soon wafted into other European countries. Until a year later, the Dutch became the first European country that managed to cultivate them in 1616. In 1650, for the first time the UK has a coffee shop in the city of Oxford. 2 years later the UK already has hundreds of coffee shops.
In about the year 1714's, the French King Louis XIV to receive donations from the Dutch coffee trees to complement his collection at the Jardin des Plantes. At the same time, a naval named Gabriel Mathieu in Clieu wanted to bring some of the tree to be taken to Martinique. However, it was rejected by Louis XIV, and in return, he led some troops to sneak into the Jardin des Plantes to steal the coffee plant. Gabriel Mathieu Clieu success in bringing the coffee plant to Martinique is a very big achievement. This is because the cultivation of coffee in there pretty good. Only in the past 50 years, there have been approximately 18 million coffee trees with diverse varieties. This has become a source of wealth types of coffee in the world.
In 1727, the Brazilian government initiative to lower the price of the coffee market in the region, because at that time the coffee was sold at a high price and can only be enjoyed by elites and nobles. Therefore, the Brazilian government sends a special agent, Lieutenant Colonel Francisco de Melo Palheta, to sneak into France and brought home some coffee seeds. Coffee plantations in France has very strict safeguards so that it is not possible. Palheta was looking the other way by approaching the governor's wife. As a result of his hard work, he took home a bucket full of flowers coffee provided by the governor's wife after dinner. From the tops of these nations Brazil managed to cultivate coffee in a very large scale. In the 19th century, Brazil, the coffee harvest. This situation led to a drastic fall in coffee prices and coffee is no longer consumed by the elite but can be enjoyed by all people.
