Take A Break and Have Some Coffee

You wake up in the morning a little sluggish and still wants to snuggle the soft pillow in bed when suddenly your senses come alive from the invigorating aroma of coffee from the kitchen.  Ah!! What a lovely morning it is.  Then in a leap you're in the kitchen enjoying your cup of a fresh brewed coffee.  But Have you ever wondered how far coffee travels into your hand.

It was said that the Arabs first discovered coffee beans around 600 AD and managed to keep coffee as a secret, having a monopoly on cultivating and drinking coffee for several hundred years. Coffee made its way and became known or used as a beverage in Western Europe and the Americas, only in the late 18th century.

Initially, Arabs brewed coffee from green, un-roasted beans making a tea-like beverage. By the late 13th century, Arabians roasted and ground coffee before brewing it.  From Yemen, where coffee was cultivated, it slowly spread throughout the Arabian Peninsula and later via the Ottoman Empire to Turkey. The world's first coffee shop, Kiva Han, opened in Constantinople in 1475.

When the Turks were forced to break off their siege of Vienna in 1683, they left behind them 500 sacks of coffee. An enterprising Polish businessman used it to open the city's first coffee house. Coffee quickly became the choice of Europe's Middle Class and Coffeehouses sprung up all over. It became the drink over which all matters-important and mundane-were discussed.

During the Islamic expansion (circa 11th-16th century), coffee found its way across the Red Sea to Turkey, Spain and North Africa. By the thirteenth century, coffee's medicinal and religious usages became well known from the holy cities of Mecca and Medina to Egypt, Persia and Syria.

In 1714, The Dutch unwittingly provide Louis XIV in Paris with a coffee bush as a gift- which he kept well guarded green house; until 1723 when a French naval officer Gabriel Mathieu do Clieu stole a seedling and transported it to Martinique. Within 50 years and official survey records 19 million coffee trees on Martinique. Eventually, 90 percent of the world's coffee spreads from this plant.

 Then  the first coffee House opened in England in 1652. A cup of coffee sold for a penny and in 1901 the Japanese Dr. Sartori Kato presented the first soluble coffee powder.  In 1938 the Nestlé Company laid the foundation for the commercial marketing of soluble coffee (instant coffee).  By now raw coffee is consumed from 600 thousand bags in 1750 to 103 million bags today by coffee lovers all over the world.

 Not only coffee is a pleasurable drink, it can be enjoyed from your cup to your cakes, candies, and so many ways we can think of.  From the invigorating aroma that many had used it for scents to the grounded beans to rub and exfoliate and beautify the skin. 

 Yes it comes a long way.  Now it comes from a variety of flavours and brands the world has enjoyed.  Give yourself a lift and enjoy!! 

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