The History Sources Of Coffee
Tina
20 Sep,2017
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.
