Each year, ICO invites the world's coffee association to participate in this coffee celebration. They call this day the moment of the celebration of the coffee trip from the garden to the tavern.
International Coffee Day had previously had several versions before being ratified two years ago. Previously, there were 17 countries including the United States, Canada, Japan, Scotland, Ethiopia, Great Britain and Australia celebrating Coffee Day on 29 September.
However, since the 2014 meeting, ICO inaugurated 1 October as International Coffee Day in London, England.
Initially, the countries that participated in this organization only amounted to 74 countries, but now has become 77 countries. From Indonesia, has now joined 24 coffee associations within ICO.
During medieval Europe, the only beverage of choice other than water is alcohol. In France and other regions that grow grapes, wine distilled water is the dominant drink. While beer and ale are more popular in the far northern region.
Drinking water is rarely done by society at that time, because it is believed alcohol drinks are much cleaner than water and more filling. Whereas the result of this alcohol is a European society that often stoned.
In Yemen in the late 1400s, a new drink made from coffee beans began to be very popular. The Yemeni people then roasted the coffee beans, then boiled them to produce a caffeine-rich drink, a stimulant that causes the body to have more energy and the brain becomes more clear thinking.
In the 1400s and 1500s, coffee began to spread widely throughout the Muslim world, and coffee shops began popping up in the big cities. Coffee shops began to be a hangout at that time, as a place to socialize and get acquainted with others.
Later in the 1600's, coffee shops began to spread to the European plains as well. Initially there was opposition from European Christian society, because coffee is considered 'Islamic drink'.
Slow sea coffee shop became the 'center of Enlightenment' especially in France. Though the European community had previously been accustomed to drinking alcohol, and now they meet in coffee shops where they discuss philosophy, government, politics and other ideas that become pillars of enlightenment. French Enlightenment philosophers such as Diderot, Voltaire, Roussesau are regular customers in the Paris coffeehouse.
The Origin of the word coffee
The word coffee itself comes from the Arabic: قهوة qahwah which means strength, because at first coffee is used as a high-energy food. The word qahwah again changed into kahveh which comes from the Turkish language and then changed again into koffie in Dutch. The use of the word koffie is immediately absorbed into Indonesian into a known coffee word today.