| Show the history of coffee the fragrant cup of coffee which makes us civil every morning and renews us so often during the day links many nations in a long and romantic history just when it first appeared as a beverage no one can say exactly but that it was wag an arabian discovery seems very likely in view of the fact that coffee grew wild in that part of the world before the ninth century after christ and fanciful arabian nights tales have been bear handed down about the first brew the most popular legend concerns kaldi an arabian goatherd 1 whose dull life on the hillside made him a gloomy joe indeed but he picked and ate some of the berries his goats were fond of nib bli baliag aig because he noticed that after eating these berries the goats became gay creatures kaldi himself became a new man thereafter coffee berries were indispensable to his diet and so carefree and lively did he become that he often joined his goats in a merry dance A monk to whom kaldi confided his experiences prepared a drink from the beans and served it to the members of his order they found the beverage sustained their energy and helped them to pray and meditate longer so they adopted the drink and cultivated the plant gradually oil popularity of the beverage spread to turkey where in 1554 the first public coffee house was established it was introduced to the venetians in 1615 the french in 1644 the english and viennese in 1650 and it was brought to north america in 1668 1608 but p promptly the power of the beverage to stimulate clear thinking and plain talking converted the popular coffee houses into discussion clubs and political debate that exploded exploded into dissension direct action and resistance si made coffee houses the targets of tyrants like charles II 11 of england who termed them seminaries of sedition but according to disraeli london and paris coffee houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries held the mirror to the tha manners the morals and the politics of a people here in colonial united states too the coffee house became the tha meeting house of the town fathers and after a time changed from purely social centers to focal points of merchant trade and political d discussion daniel webster called B green dragon coffee H house 0 use the headquarters of the american revolution the dutch took the coffee plant to south america back a round around 1718 with a result that e every ve ry sixth grader knows coffee plantations in pan america pro produce ducle three fourths of the worlds coffet coffee and because we are the world greatest coffee drinkers of course were the biggest customers for the pan american yield AU ali previous invoices were topped in 1943 when the united states imported bags of coffee each containing pounds 1 |
