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Fascinating Facts About Coffee

Legend has it that coffee was discovered by an Ethiopian goatherd whose goats got into a certain berry bush. After stripping the bush of its berries, the goats became so playful and energetic that the goatherd reasoned, perhaps those berries would do the same for people. It was around 500 A.D. The berries, of course, were coffee berries, and the Ethiopians managed to keep their beans secret for nearly 1,000 years. In the fourteenth century coffee beans were introduced to western Europe, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Here are some fascinating facts about coffee:

— Coffee was originally called gahwah, which means that which gives strength. The Turks named it kahveh, which sounds remarkably like the pronunciation in every country in the world.

— The French and Spanish named the black brew cafe. The Italians call it caffee and the Germans kaffee. The Finns say kahvi, the Dutch say koffie, and the Greeks cafeo. And, of course, English speaking people call it coffee.

— The Venetians brought coffee beans back to Italy, in about 1600. At first coffee was demonized by the Roman Catholic Church. Then Pope Clement VIII had his first cup of coffee. He loved it, and he encouraged every Christian to drink the black energizing brew. People flocked to try coffee, and sales simply took off!

— The first Coffee House was introduced in Paris by an Armenian, who set up a tent at the Fair of Saint-Germain in 1642. Coffee was the big hit of the fair.

— By 1689 Francois Procope opened a new kind of coffeehouse called the Cafe de Procope. It was elegant, gracious, and very French. Another vendor opened the Cafe de la Regence, and both of those coffeehouses are still serving cafe today.

— Coffeehouses spread across Europe and eventually to the New World, where coffee became king of hot beverages, especially in America.

— Americas first coffee peddler was a woman, Dorothy Jones of Boston, who was licensed in 1670.

— The catalyst that made coffee the staple American drink was, of course, the Boston Tea Party in 1773.

— By the time of the Civil War coffee was very much a part of the American way of life. Both Northern and Southern soldiers expected coffee to be a part of their necessary field supplies, as do our soldiers today. Every Meals Ready to Eat (MRE) that our soldiers receive in the field, also, contains coffee.

— Today coffee has become an institution in every country throughout the world. No matter where you travel, you can always find a coffeehouse and a cup of coffee. Some coffee will be very strong and black, others will contain milk, cream, and sugar.

Throughout the world, coffee has become an excuse to eat everything from donuts to coffee cake, and everything in between. After 1500 years, the coffee break is definitely here to stay. Jaye Lewis

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