A brief history of coffee

News of this spread through the area and eventually came to the attention of monks who dried the beans for transportation to distant monasteries. They then reconstituted them with water, ate the fruit and drank the liquid probably to help relieve fatigue during prayers. Coffee was then transported from Ethiopia to what is now called Yemen and from there to Turkey; where they were first roasted over an open fire, crushed and boiled to make a crude but very {I tried this for the essay} effective version of what we drink today.

It was Venetian trade merchants who brought coffee to Europe in any quantity the first shipment being to Venice in 1615.The first coffee house in record was surprisingly enough opened in Oxford in 1650. This new beverage came under harsh criticism from the Catholic Church with some priests seeking to ban coffee calling it a drink of the Devil and

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Today, coffee is a giant global industry employing more than 20 million people. The King however decided that he preferred hot chocolate. And it’s the descendants of this plant that have ended up producing the entire western coffee industry. With over 400 billion cups consumed every year, coffee is the world's most popular beverage. He thought about turning Martinique into a French owned Java. He marketed this under the brand name of “Sanka”, which was introduced to the US in 1923.

Coffee became the national drink of the then colonised USA in protest of the extortionate tax set on tea by King George which caused the “Boston tea party”. This resulted in Amsterdam becoming a major trade centre for coffee.

Coffee houses spread around Europe quickly and became places of intellectual exchange and thought they were also influential, frequented mostly by artists and philosophers, also a forum of political activity and development, the French could possibly still have a monarchy were it not for the Cafés attracting the revolutionaries. part of the infidel threat from the Ottoman Empire, but to their astonishment Pope Clement VIII who was already a coffee drinker blessed it and declared coffee to be a truly Christian beverage.

But it was in Vienna after being besieged by the Turks where a polish army officer Franz Georg Kolschitzky who refined it to the drink we know today by filtering out the grains, sweetening it and adding milk. He was intrigued enough to start experiments in 1906 and put his product on the market under the name “Red E Coffee” in 1909.

Nescafe was first introduced in Switzerland and the sales sky-rocketed. If you can imagine, in Brazil alone, over 5 million people are employed in the cultivation and harvesting of over 3 billion coffee plants.

A young French naval officer named Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu who was on leave in Paris from Martinique a French colony in the Caribbean.

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