The wave of raising the glass to the jaws, aroma the coffee and have a drink of it, conceding some rest time is a tenor that unite a lot of people all around the world, but professional are without reservation few persons that know or impartial stroke the curiosity for the origins of coffee.
About the origins of coffee competent are a lot of legends, some famous, others less fine - admitted; certainly the most notable is the one that arrives from Chehodet nunnery in Yemen that tells that the drink was created by a friar called Kaldi, who succeeding having discovered from a notability that his goats and camels were more active identical at dim when they eat some particular barriers, tried to make a drink out of them, now he wanted to stay witting more time in order to pray more. Another legend, from a definitely more pagan and less religious derivation, is the one that tells that the archangel Gabriel, to help the prophet Mahomet when he was feeling sick during a journey, offered him a drink similar to an espresso, dark as the Mecca Sacred Black Stone, called quawa, assuring him that it could have helped him in proceeding with the journey, and so it happened.
Another legend that recalls a millenary story, was told still in 1700 by the friar Antonio Fausto Nairone - theology teacher at the Sorbona University - to his students, and told that coffee was discovered in Arabia by a shepherd called Kaddi that after having noticed that his livestock excited a lot after eating a certain kind of berry, submit it to the examination of the abbot Yahia, who extracted from it a drink for humans, that was able to invigorate the body in the event of weariness, freeing it from the clouds of the drowsiness.
Another legend tells that the origins of the toasted coffee as we know it today, has been discovered by an Iman from an Arabic monastery, who tried, with the berries of the coffee plant, to create a decoction for the monks of the monastery, who because of that dark and bitter beverage - stayed awake all night long, without feeling any drowsiness; another story tells that the precursors of the modern technique of coffee toaster are in the territory of Abyssinia, that in very ancient times was razed by a huge fire that spread in a natural plantation of coffee plants, creating an enormous dark cloud but also a very strong coffee aroma that spread for miles.
Apart from the legends born around this ancient drink, the reports found in many documents, prove that the diffusion of coffee was still present in the Islamic Orient, already since XVI century, while in the occidental world the diffusion of coffee was facilitated by Venice, where in 1640 was opened the first Coffee Shop.
Venice kept the primate for coffee importation in Europe until the end of 1600, when in Giava and Sumatra appeared the firsts coffee plants, stolen some years before by a group of Dutch sailors landed in Moka, Yemen; later on the seeds of this very ancient plant reached the Americas where today, especially in Brazil, exists the most ancient plantations of the world.
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