Coffee is the most drunk drink in the whole world and I can understand why its nutty aromatic flavor ever so tasty that one would be crazy not instantly fall in love with it. So might say that its addictive but can you blame us coffee lovers.
The Legends of coffee:
Dated back to the 9th century the Oromo people in Ethiopia, was earliest form of coffee shown to have grown in history ,it began one day when they had seen their goats reaction after the goats indulged eating the coffee berry, this story is found in the story of Kaldi or Khalid. The story tells about a shepherd around 750 AD, about a man named Kaldi or Khalid who had seen his goats more energetic after which Kaldi took the beans to the Sufi monastery where the monk disapproved the usage and threw the berries in a fire thus making the aromatic smell, the beans than were grounded boiled and drunk creating the coffee. Although the story is questioned whether there was truth in this story or not in modern times Kaldi coffee is well known in many parts of the world. This story did however end up in writing only in 1671. Coffee was than sent to Arabia, Egypt and to Yemen
The next legend shows that Sheikh Omar (written in Abd-Al-Kadir manuscript) was a man known to cure people through prayer was exiled from Mocha in Yemen, starving through the dessert near a cave Oubsab ( known as Wusab today) chewed on these powerful berries found on a shrub. Due to its bitter flavour, Omar tried roasting the seeds which made them hard, he than thought that if he boiled them it would soften but instead it dissolved into coffee. When Omar was asked returned to the Mocha he became the saint. Brought form Ethiopia to Arabia, Egypt and Yemen.
Creditable evidence of coffee origin :
During the 15th century in the books show of Ahmed al-Gaffar in Yemen, who introduced it, to the Sufi circles to stay awake during religious rituals. Again shown in the books, that Muhammad Ben Said brought the beverage to Aden from the African coast. Ali ben Omar of the Shadhili introduced it to Arabia, according to him he found that during his stay with Adal King Sadadin in 1401.
In the 16th century a scholar named Ibn Hajar al-Haytami found a beverage which he called Qahwa from a tree in the region on Zeila. By the 16th coffee had reached the Middle East, Persia, bits of Asia, Turkey and Africa. The first summugle of coffee out of middle east was by a man named Sufi Baba Budan from Yemen it is said that he strapped 7 seeds on his chest and they were planted in Mysore. It was then sent to Italy to Europe to Indonesia and finally to America. Dispite the ban of the Muslim drink it was later accepted by Pope Clemet VII in 1600. There after the first ever coffee house opened in Rome in 1645, which was 45 years later after been accepted. The Dutch East Idia company was the first to import coffee on a larger account and the first exports of Indonesian coffee was to Netherlands in 1711.
