HISTORY OF COFFEE.

Coffee Seeds

The most popular and reliable story for the coffee discovery is that a Gemini traveler in Ethiopia discovered that animals which eat the berries from a certain tree are abnormally active, so he decided to try the berry himself, and by one way or another by boiling and toasting the seeds he concluded the coffee soup which we have developed theses days, so he tells everyone about his discovered soup and it goes in public the plain coffee we know.
today we might see this a little of exaggeration but consider that this was a tenth of century that people did not even knew about drugs or where their effects came from, for these reasons we need to imagine why Geminis Sufi monks believed coffee to be such a mystical drink but how did it come from being just a drink for the monks to become the most public drink in the world we know now?

Coffee House in the Early 1600s

Coffee Houses: by the year 1414 coffee was not only popular in homes but it was also in the many public coffee houses around the holy city of Mecca, not only this patrons drink coffee and engage in conversation, but they also listen to music, watch performers and play Domino's in the houses. as the thousands of pilgrimages coming to Mecca each year the soup was globally recognized and the demand on this magical soup was in the local markets all around the old world, coffee houses was In Cairo, Istanbul then .by the 16th century the Imams of Mecca tried to forbid it then the decision from the Ottoman Emperor Sulyman the First made the coffee and coffee houses legal again.

Coffee Houses In Europe

In the 17th century the coffee took a path to Europe but it was firstly refused by the people and they considered it forbidden soup and disagree with the christian religion, even the local clergy condemned the coffee when it came to Venice in 1650, the controversy was so great that pop Clement VIII decided to have a beverage of coffee and he gave a papal approval to it.




Despite coffee houses had problems in its early stages in Europe, but it spread all around it from England to Austria, Germany, France & Holland. by the mid of the 17th century there was around 300 coffee houses or centers in London only, Penny universities sprang up which got their name from the coffee cope price that was produces it's coffee house within it. soon the coffee replaced the radical beer and wine that was produced or was usually meant to be at the early of each morning which was consumed regularly much than water at this time.

London University. 

Not surprisingly, the quality or the quantity of work greatly improved. it's also hard to ignore that the age of enlightenment has took place after Europe consumed Coffee and it was a daily beverage at every single coffee house at the 17th century. it was also at this time when the coffee was brought to New York still down, later called New York by the British but there was one major problem, coffee was only grown in Arabia, and the cost of importing a big amounts of it to America was very high.

Public Coffee House in Early America

1723 a french naval officer called Gabrielle de Clue has obtained a not bad quantity of Coffee seeds in order to plant them in the new world of America t a small Island of Martinique, and that was the first coffee that comes to the new world, or how it was thought, later on in 1773 when the heavy tax was raised tea was imposed by king George the Third and the Tea Party was created, Americans decided that Coffee was way to go and by the end of the 18th century coffee became one of the world most popular drink ever.

Despite the problems that faced the magical effect of coffee on the whole body and the brain activity. coffee houses played a main role in communication and enlightenment age of Europe and had a huge part of scientists life and here are some quotes about coffee by the greatest minds of our era:

"If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning"

Mae West

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee"

Abraham Lincoln

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems"

Albert Einstein