Coffe

                                     Coffee

What to say about the most popular beverage in the world , millions of people start their day with the first cup of the dark and tasty beverage ,
As far as I know the history of the coffee it came from old Ethiopia.
There are several hypotheses about the origins of the use of coffee as a beverage and all contain a greater or lesser extent , the elements of the legend. The most popular is the one that says that the Ethiopian shepherd Kaldi noticed one day that his goats " strange " behavior after they had eaten berries from a bush unknown to him . As animals become quite lively Kaldi 's and I decided to try the fruit . He concluded his one returning strength and his discovery shares with Coptic priests in a nearby convent. Priests have adopted the habit of consuming fruits that first soaked in water and then eaten while the water in which the berries soaking drink . Kava has been accepted by the priests because they reflect awake during lengthy prayer. With Ethiopian Copts machine has been used by members of other tribes istočnoafričkih and so that would eat the fruit mixed with animal fat . Such meals maintain their strength during long walks .

With space African highlands coffee no later than 9 century crossed the Red Sea and has established itself in Arabia. From Arabia came potion that today we call coffee. Sometime about 1000 BC. Mr. started made ​​into potion of dried seeds and isprženih coffee which quickly became widely accepted throughout Arabia. The center of the coffee shop has become a city of Mocha in Yemen , according to which it is called one of the most popular types of coffee - caffe mocha . Arabs are carefully guarded secret of making coffee , and any attempt of smuggling plants was a capital offense . Penetration of coffee to Europe began with the Ottoman conquest . In Turkey, the empire in the 16th century developed a daily habit of drinking coffee . Habit took such momentum that the government was forced to introduce a ban on the consumption of coffee because they felt that it takes too much time Sultan subjects. Despite the ban , the mid-16th century opened the first coffee houses in Istanbul .

In Europe, the coffee first appeared in the south of the continent. Already 1570th Venetian merchants transported to Venice together with tobacco . The 1582nd , Francesco Morosini , the Venetian ambassador in Istanbul , in his report stated that in jobs often develops just a cup of coffee in one of Istanbul's many cafes. Half of the 17th century opened the first coffee house in Venice , and was soon followed her example, Milan, Turin , Genoa and other Italian cities . In 1760. Only in Venice there are more than 200 coffee houses. How 's the coffee coming from Muslim countries conservative Italian believers sought from the Pope to the ban because it was considered "a drink infidels ." Pope Clement VIII ( pontifex maximus from 1592nd to 1605th ) requested that , before the ban , try the new beverage. Having tasted the coffee , thrilled her aroma , dropped out of the ban.

Turkish march on Vienna in the late 17th century enabled and Central Europe to become familiar with the coffee . After the battle in the Turkish tents are found bags of coffee , and already in 1683. opened the first coffee house in the city on the Danube. To the west of the continent coffee came through the Dutch traders. First he smuggled from Arabia to India , where it quickly spread to the Dutch possessions in Indonesia , particularly the island of Java.

European demand for coffee increased so rapidly that it became necessary to expand the area of its cultivation . Coffee was already popular in Europe , mainly among the aristocracy, because the small amount of its price was very high. One of the big fans of the new drink was the French King Louis XIV . Over Dutch sailors came into possession of several plants. His intention was to start farming in France. He soon realized that the plants do not tolerate cold temperatures and frost , so for the purposes of breeding built the first greenhouse in the world. Since production in greenhouses was not sufficient to meet the growing needs , Louis XIV . commanded Gabriel Mathieu de Clie to take a few plants and ship them to switch to the French possessions in the Caribbean. De Clie agreed to Martinique where he soon procavao cultivation of coffee and the middle of the 18th century on the island grew more than 15 million bushes of this plant. Shortly after he arrived in Martinique and coffee made ​​it to Latin America. On the plains of this continent coffee has encountered a climate similar to that in its birthplace - East Africa. For this reason the cultivation of coffee just because of the area of ​​Latin America experienced its greatest boom

Today is focused on two types of cultivated coffee, Coffea arabica and Coffea robusta . Both belong to the genus Coffea , which has 25 different types . Only arabica and robusta commercially grown with the majority of the world's production is Arabica while Robusta grows less due to its bitter- sour taste. The leading country for the production of coffee today are Brazil , Colombia, Ethiopia , Uganda , Angola , India and Indonesia .


In the modern age of coffee is a beverage that is always prepared in a variety of occasions.
Coffee culture is different from country to country and from region to region , but I'll write about it in a future publication .