Hello Neia1234,
Coffee drinking began so long ago, that no one can be positive of
its origin, but I suspect women drank it as well!. (My question is,
who was the first corageous person to eat a crab!?!?)
The story seems to go this way however:
"According to one story, the effect of coffee beans on behavior was
noticed by a sheep herder from Caffa Ethopia named Kaldi as he tended
his sheep. He noticed that the sheep became hyperactive after eating
the red "cherries" from a certain plant when they changed pastures. He
tried a few himself, and was soon as overactive as his herd. The story
relates that a monk happened by and scolded him for "partaking of the
devil's fruit." However the monks soon discovered that this fruit from
the shiny green plant could help them stay awake for their prayers.
Another legend gives us the name for coffee or "mocha." An Arabian was
banished to the desert with his followers to die of starvation. In
desperation, Omar had his friends boil and eat the fruit from an
unknown plant. Not only did the broth save the exiles, but their
survival was taken as a religious sign by the residents of the nearest
town, Mocha. The plant and its beverage were named Mocha to honor this
event.
Originally the coffee plant grew naturally in Ethopia, but once
transplanted in Arabia was monopolized by them. One early use for
coffee would have little appeal today. The Galla tribe from Ethiopia
used coffee, but not as a drink. They would wrap the beans in animal
fat as their only source of nutrition while on raiding parties. The
Turks were the first country to adopt it as a drink, often adding
spices such as clove, cinnamon, cardamom and anise to the brew.
Coffee was introduced much later to countries beyond Arabia whose
inhabitants believed it to be a delicacy and guarded its secret as if
they were top secret military plans. Transportation of the plant out
of the Moslem nations was forbidden by the government. The actual
spread of coffee was started illegally. One Arab named Baba Budan
smuggled beans to some mountains near Mysore, India, and started a
farm there. Early in this century, the descendants of those original
plants were found still growing fruitfully in the region."
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/coffee/history.htm
http://www.ringsurf.com/info/Food/Coffee/History_of_Coffee/
"We don't know much about it's history prior to 1000 AD, but not
because it had none, but simply because WE don't know. The only thing
that managed to slip into available records is the fact that members
of certain Galla tribes in Ethiopia discovered a perfect remedy for
lethargy: they took certain berries, ground them up, mixed them up
with animal fat, took it and went and did what they were supposed to
be doing.
About 1000 AD when some Arabs came traveling through they must have
looked a little too anemic to their African hosts. So, generous
Africans supplied them with a good amount of magical berries which
industrial Arab traders took back to their homeland and started
cultivating the plant for the first time on plantations. Thus the
COFFEE AGE BEGAN."
http://www.natashascafe.com/html/history.html
Hope this has been helpful to you!
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Regards, Crabcakes
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