The civilized world is indebted to Africa for the coffee bean (Coffea arabica), native to the Abyssinian province of Caffa, from which its name is derived. Its early history is clouded in tradition, but it appears that the use of coffee... *
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The civilized world is indebted to Africa for the coffee bean (Coffea arabica), native to the Abyssinian province of Caffa, from which its name is derived. Its early history is clouded in tradition, but it appears that the use of coffee was known to the ancient Ethiopians since time immemorial. An old Ethiopian legend claims that a goatherd by the name of Kaldi noticed that his goats, instead of drowsing in the evening, pranced around whenever they nibbled berries from a certain shrub on the hillside. He tried some of these berries himself, and became so excited over the resulting exhilaration and wakefulness, that he brought a few of the berries to the chief mullah. The chief tasted the berries and stated they were exactly what he needed to keep the faithful awake during the evening services.
Coffee was not only used as a stimulant by the ancient Ethiopians, but it was also used by the Abyssinian warriors as a battle food. They mixed roasted and pulverized coffee beans with grease to form balls, and this was the only nutriment carried by raiding parties on short forays. In the 15th century, coffee beans were brought from Abyssinia across the Red Sea to Arabia which became, through its port of Mocha (which gave coffee its second name), the starting point that led to the universal consumption of coffee. In those days, Arabian merchants, standing at the gateway from Asia to Europe, added coffee beans from Africa to the spices and luxuries of the Orient. The Arabians, themselves, became so fond of coffee drinking that in 1470 the first public coffee houses, called Kaveh Khanehs, were opened in Mecca and Medina. The use of coffee spread to Damascus in Syria where in 1530 the first two coffee houses were opened under the eloquent names of the Cafe of the Roses and the Cafe of the Gates of Salvation.
In 1554, coffee reached Constantinople and hundreds of coffee houses were opened up in the city on the Bosporus. At the end of the 16th century, coffee houses were a common sight in the harbor cities of the eastern Mediterranean from Venice to Cairo, and in Asia Minor from the Mediterranean Coast to Samarkand. In the middle of the 17th century, the demand for coffee rose in England and western Europe.
In 1650, an Armenian from Lebanon, named Jacob, opened the first English coffee house at Oxford, under the elaborate name of the Coffee House at the Angel at the Parish of St. Peter in the East. In 1652, the first coffee house in London was opened by a Mr. Bowman, in St. Michael's Alley; the first French coffee house was opened in 1671 at Marseille, near the Merchants' Exchange, and the first Parisian coffee stall was put up in 1672 at the St. Germain Fair by an Armenian named Pascal.
In 1683 at Vienna, after the siege by the Ottoman army under Grand Vizier Kara Mustapha was broken, the fleeing Turkish forces left hundreds of bags of coffee on the battlefield. Franz George Kolszycki, a Polish officer who distinguished himself heroically in that battle, recovered the coffee that no one else wanted, as his share of the booty. He then opened the first of the Viennese coffee houses. These European coffee houses became the centers of the fashionable, literary, artistic and political classes. The progress of coffee was beset with many obstacles. Religiously inclined groups denounced it as an insidiously pernicious beverage, and statesmen saw political danger in the free discussions which marked the attendance at coffee houses. The coffee houses were closed down time and again in many countries under the pressure of Church and state; heavy taxes were put on every gallon of coffee brewed, but the new beverage outlived all imposed restrictions.
In North America, notwithstanding the fact that the United States is today the largest coffee consumer in the world, the institution of the coffee house never reached the social importance that it had attained, and still holds, in many countries of Europe. There were a few well-known coffee houses in the past, like John Hutchins' The Kings Arms, opened in 1696 on New York's Broadway between Trinity Church and Cedar Street, or the Green Dragon standing on Boston's Union Street for 135 years, from 1697 to 1832. But the hub of the social, political and military life of the ale, beer and whiskey drinking colonials was to be found in the inns and taverns.
Until the end of the 17th century, the world depended entirely on Africa and Arabia for its supply of coffee beans. At this time all the European governments with overseas possessions tried to plant coffee in their colonies. King Louis XIV of France was the first to order the cultivation of coffee beans in the French West Indian colony of Martinique. The Dutch planted coffee in Java (from where the beverage got its third name). They also planted coffee in Sumatra and other islands of the Malay Archipelago.
In 1700, the British introduced coffee into India; and the Dutch, in 1720, into Ceylon. Spanish missionaries, arriving in the Philippines from Java in 1740, brought coffee seeds along for cultivation. At about the same time, the first coffee shrubs were planted in Brazil, now the world's greatest coffee producing country. Somewhat later, coffee planting spread to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico and practically all other parts of Central and South America. Today, Africa, the cradle of the coffee plant, is a comparatively unimportant factor in the great bulk of the world's coffee production.
Coffee houses in their original form vanished from the American scene with the advent of prohibition. But the last two decades saw the revival of the coffee house in its old sense, on the North American continent. Thousands of refugees from European cities where the coffee house is part and parcel of the daily way of life, tens of thousands of American soldiers stationed in Europe in the occupation armies and Nato, the hundreds of thousands of American tourists, artists and students, vacationing or learning in western, central and southern Europe, acquired a taste for the leisurely life of the coffee house, and brought a desire for it to our shores.
Now, progressively more coffee houses, beatnik, literary or just social, are springing up in cities from coast to coast all over the United States. And the best coffee today, as 150 years ago, is made after the recipe of the French diplomat, Talleyrand-Perigord: "Black as the devil; hot as hell; pure as an angel; sweet as love."
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Adults and children 18 years of age and over - Stir 1/4 of a teaspoon into a glass of water and consume with meals, at least 3-4 hours apart. Do not exceed single dosages in a 24 hour period.
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