PROFILE |
WHAT IS COFFEE? |
HISTORY OF COFFEE |
TYPES OF COFFEE |
BENEFITS OF DRINKING COFFEE |
Coffee grown worldwide can trace its heritage back centuries to
the ancient coffee forests on the Ethiopian plateau. There, legend says the
goat herder Kaldi first discovered the potential of these beloved beans.
The story goes that that Kaldi discovered coffee after he
noticed that after eating the berries from a certain tree, his goats became so
energetic that they did not want to sleep at night.
Kaldi
reported his findings to the abbot of the local monastery, who made a drink
with the berries and found that it kept him alert through the long hours of
evening prayer. The abbot shared his discovery with the other monks at the
monastery, and knowledge of the energizing berries began to spread.
As
word moved east and coffee reached the Arabian peninsula, it began a journey
which would bring these beans across the globe.