The History Of Coffee
Tina
12 Sep,2017
The word "Coffee" comes from the town of Kaffa, Ethiopia's Ethiopian Ethiopian, in the Greek word "Kaweh" means "strength and passion". Coffee and tea, cocoa are called the world's three drinks. Coffee trees are evergreen small trees, rubiaceae daily consumption of coffee is made of coffee beans with different kinds of cooking utensils, and coffee is coffee tree fruit of nuts, then use the appropriate baking and baking method.
The world's first coffee tree was found in the horn of Africa. Local aboriginal tribes often grind the fruit of the coffee and mix it with animal fat to make a lot of ball balls. These indigenous tribes treat these coffee balls as valuable food for the soldiers who are about to go out.
Sometimes, people don't understand coffee eaters showed high is going on - they don't know this is caused by the irritation of coffee, on the contrary, people like this is coffee eaters exhibit religious fanaticism. The drink was so mysterious that it became a specialty for priests and doctors. There are different legends about the origin of coffee.
The most common and popular way is the shepherd's story. Legend has it that a shepherd, when he was herding sheep, found his sheep jumping and dancing, and, looking closely, the sheep ate a kind of red fruit to make his behavior funny and strange. He tried to picked some of the red fruit, go back to cook for, did not think of full chamber, boil into juice drink after more spirits, refreshing, from then on, this fruit is as a kind of refreshing drinks, and acclaimed.
In ancient times, the arabs first dried the coffee beans and drank it as a stomach medicine, believing it could help digestion. Coffee was later found to be a stimulant, and with the islamic Canon strictly forbidden to drink, coffee was used instead of alcohol as a refreshing drink. After the 15th century, Muslim pilgrims on the hajj in the holy land began to bring coffee back to their place of residence, and the coffee spread to Egypt, Syria, Iran and Turkey. Coffee into the continental when attributed to Turkish Ottoman empire at that time, because addicted to drink coffee in the western expedition continental army of Ottoman and in local presence for several years, when the army finally leave, left a large number of supplies, including beans, Vienna and Paris were able to bring with the coffee beans, and cooking experience from the turks, and developed European coffee culture. The war had been conquered and destroyed, but unexpectedly brought about cultural exchanges and even integration, which the rulers had not anticipated.
Westerners are familiar with coffee for three hundred years, but in the east, coffee has been used as a beverage in the society in the past. Coffee appears the earliest and most of the exact time is in the eighth century b.c., but as early as in Homer's work (a conflict with the Greek poet, birth year, the authority is born in 744 BC -) and many ancient Arab legend, describes a kind of magic, black color, taste bitter, and has the power to intense stimulation, drinks. Before and after the tenth century, Avicenna (Avicenna, 980-1037, the ancient one of the greatest master of the islamic world, as a philosopher, a doctor, theorists such as -) coffee is used as a drug to treat disease. There is a strange story originated in the 15th century, legend has it that a shepherd saw a sheep on the hills of yemen from a clump of bushes on the bit off color reddish berries, soon these goats became agitated, excited, the shepherd reported the matter to a monk (in the Middle East and the west old monk is knowledge of the upper classes -), the monk will cook some berries, and then refined a bitter taste, strong feet, can drive sleepy refreshing drinks and sleepiness.
Although coffee was discovered in the Middle East, the coffee tree originated in an area of Africa, called Kaffa, which has been introduced to yemen, the Arabian peninsula and Egypt. It was in Egypt that coffee was developing so rapidly that it quickly became popular in People's Daily lives.
By the 16th century, early merchants had sold coffee in Europe, and thus made coffee a new one
Style drinks introduce western customs and life. The vast majority of exports to the European market of coffee from Alexandria and Smyrna (the western port city of Turkey -), but with the growing of the market demand, the import and export ports imposed high tariffs, and people to the coffee tree planting enhanced domain knowledge, make the dealers and scientists are beginning to test the coffee portable to other countries. Dutch people in their overseas colonies (Batavia and Java, < Batavia namely now in Jakarta, Indonesia, old name - on >), the French in 1723 in Martinique (located in Latin America), and then in the Antilles (located in the west Indies -) were transplanted coffee tree; Later, the British, Spanish and Portuguese began to encroach on tropical coffee growing areas in Asia and America.
Northern Brazil in 1727 began the coffee planting, but bad weather conditions make the crop planting was gradually shifted to other area, the original is Rio DE janeiro, eventually to Sao Paulo and minas chau (about 1800-1850), the growth of coffee here find it an ideal environment. Coffee grows here and grows until it becomes Brazil's most important source of economic growth.
It was between 1740 and 1850 that coffee was planted in central and South America as the most popular.
Although coffee was born in Africa, farming and household consumption were relatively recent. In fact, it was the europeans who returned the coffee to their colony, where it thrived, thanks to favourable land and climate conditions.
The beginning of the 19th century, coffee was introduced into China by missionaries, in 1884, first appeared in Japan according to Taiwan's yunlin ancient pit generation times, at the end of the 19th century, by the French missionaries in China's yunnan province, in the early 20th century, China's overseas Chinese introducing coffee hainan xinglong, thus in the tradition of coffee history, hainan xinglong coffee, since the 1960 s, have been the attention of a number of national leaders, comrade zhou enlai visited xinglong, said: "drink so much coffee, or xinglong coffee is the best drink." To this day, the flourishing generation still populates the old tradition of drinking coffee and enjoying the coffee. In 2006, xinglong coffee was awarded as the national geographic landmark product.
