Coffee: A Historic Beverage, And A Great Holiday Gift by Irene D. Hope

Ah, coffee... a fantastic dark beverage that wakes us up in

the morning. For some of us, it keeps us up during the day,

or for late night study sessions. We drink it out of habit,

we drink it from addiction, we drink it for flavor; whatever

the reason, it is surely a popular beverage. So where did

this famed drink come from?

Coffee, for Americans, is three hundred years old. In the

East it was widespread at every level of society, since the

earlier era. The most notable dates point to around

800b.c. However, Homer, and according to Arabian tales speak

of a mysterious bitter black beverage with powers of

stimulation that could have been this drink.

About the year 1000, coffee was being used for medicinal

purposes. In 1400 a Yemeni goat herder observed his flock

eating reddish berries, then becoming excited and restless.

After relating his observations to a monk, they boiled

the berries and made a beverage that could disperse

sleep and weariness. No matter how it actually was

created, the fact remains that the coffee plant

started in Africa, in an Ethiopian region known as Kaffa.

From there it spread to Egypt, Yemen, and Arabia, where it

became a part of daily life.

In the late 1500s coffee was a commodity, being sold in

Europe. However, due to an increasing demand for the new

beverage, and high taxes on shipping, there was

experimentation with growing the crops in various other

countries. Much later, around 1727 coffee growing started in

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