where did coffee originate
Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Expansion coffee
1.Expansion cultural and political coffee
Coffee is known outside of Africa to 15th century and arrived in Europe with the way turqueries. This is the 17th that painters are portraits of women clad men dressed as Oriental or Turkish, with a porcelain cup started small.
Coffee in Palestine
By the way, the start-up called Coffee opens its "doors in 1555 in Istanbul, the town house more than 500 just 50 years later. Europeans are familiar with the nectar in their Journey to the East Alpino the doctor who discovered thriving in 1592 in Egypt this "black drink with a bitter taste of chicory similar.
Between the 15th and 16th century, the product exported to Europe, but it is in the form of grains since the Turkish Sultans were checking all bags before exporting them to retain the monopoly of production. All grains should be cooked before leaving Saudi avoid germination and culture in a region other than Ethiopia or Yemen until 17.
Cafe Europe
In 1615 Venice was the first European city to host a green coffee loading Cairo. But in Vienna in 1645 opened the start-up called "Coffee. Its consumption is mainly the privilege of the intellectual elite and then be gradually introduced into the courts and salons. In France, the first shipment of coffee from Marseille in 1664 on a ship of Alexandria. But the official entry of France into the coffee place in 1669 when his appearance is the court of Louis XIV by the Turkish ambassador Soliman Aga.
The latter, it offers coffee at a reception, but the king did not appreciate and prefers chocolate. This was not the case of Louis XV that the pleasure of enjoying a coffee grown in France. From the meager harvest greenhouses Versailles itself roasts and precious beverage prepared person.
Indeed, penetration in Europe coffee was rather slow: Import Product exotic expensive than governments were heavily taxed to restrict consumption. Long considered a luxury, it contraband, and "democratized" with the opening of many establishments called "pubs.
In 1670, Berlin brings in its first flow of coffee and the same time, other opened in London, Marseille and Amsterdam.
In Paris, in 1686, Le Procope, opened its first ice doorsIt are today. The owner is Italian, so Francesco Procopio Dei Knives.Le Cafe Procope It quickly became the scene in front of the cafe. Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot were loyal regulars and born Encyclopedia under crystal chandeliers. Later, during the Revolution, there will scroll Danton, Marat and Robespierre. Benjamin Franklin There will also refine the U.S. Constitution. Like others across Europe time, Procopius accompanied the birth liberal ideas by philosophers and scientists who participate. But the popularity and gatherings for institutions give rise worry sometimes as powerful in England in 1676: the king's attorney Charles II ordered the closure of crimes lese majeste pubs. But the strength of reaction results in the revocation of the edict. In France, 18, 300 schools, the figure rises 3000 1850. In England, there are over 2,000 in 1700.
2.Expansion Botanical coffee
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