The Coffee Business Essential
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Coffee Machine
To kick things off lets go back a thousand years ago where the first coffee plants were said to originate from depths of Africa and crossing the Red Sea to Arabia. They say coffee originally was taken as food and not as beverages. East African tribes would grind the coffee beans together combining them with animal fats and the said mixture was said to give tribe warriors enough needed energy for battle.
Coffee Bean
And much later to that, the Ethiopians, tried fermenting the dried beans in water which formulated a type of wine from the coffee berries. There were a lot of exhilarating effects during these ancient times giving sort of religious bliss which later on gained mystical reputation shrouded in secrecy. No wonder two widely known legends surfaced to unfold the discovery of the coffee bean.
As the coffee legend goes, somewhere in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, an Arabian goat herder whose name was Kaldi found his goats dancing strangely around a green leafed shrub with red cherries fruits. The goat herder soon realized that it was these bright red cherries on the shrub that has caused the herd of their bizarre happiness. Curious about the strange effects on the herd, Kaldi tasted the red cherries himself and was pleased by its exhilarating effects. While frolicking around with his flocks he was noticed by nearby monks which later on began to boil the beans and used them to stay alert during extended nights of prayer. This new discovery among the monks was then circulated to other monasteries all over the world.
Another story says that there was a Muslim dervish—a member of a Muslim ascetic order, was doomed by his adversaries to roam the vast dessert and later suffer in starvation. In his hallucination, he heard a strange voice instructing him to consume a fruit in a nearby cherry shrub. And after an unsuccessful attempt to soften the beans with water, he drunk the liquid. He then understands that his survival and regained vitality was a gift from God and later on spread this message and the discovered recipe to his people.
And from these legends there are still uncertainties in tracing the true beginnings of coffee. Some say Ethiopians may have brought coffee’s to Arabia when they occupied Yemen in the early centuries, but it still remains another theory unsolved.