Is the origin of coffee in Africa? the birthplace of coffee in African coffee producing countries.

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It is said that the earliest coffee trees were found in Ethiopia, but the earliest birthplace of coffee is generally believed to be in the Middle East, while Columbus, who played the role of discovering the New World, was a young Arab shepherd. In the course of grazing, the shepherd found that the sheep became excited after eating the fruit of an evergreen tree, so they ate some fruit curiously. Unexpectedly, they tried a fascinating drink for mankind for the next few hundred years. After that, he took the fruit and distributed it to the monks in the monastery, all of whom felt refreshed after eating it. It is said that the fruit has since been used as a refreshing medicine and has been well received by doctors. This kind of fruit is today's coffee beans.

Coffee for drinking is said to have begun at the beginning of the eleventh century, and the record can be seen in ancient Arab documents. Before that, coffee beans were dried and boiled in the Arab region and used as stomach medicine, but it was later learned that coffee also had a refreshing effect, coupled with the strict Muslim commandments that forbade believers from drinking alcohol. Believers drank coffee juice from roasting as an exciting drink instead of alcohol, and it was said that locals knew how to roast raw beans after the 13th century.

Coffee was widely planned by Arabs in the 12th and 3rd centuries, and the world's first coffee shop was born in Damascus in the Middle East in the 16th century (1530). In just a few years, from the ancient Constantinople to the Caucasus, from the Persian Gulf to Budapest, and more than 200 cities throughout the empire had different numbers of coffee shops, and the roads connecting these cities across the desert wilderness, there are mobile coffee tents all over the way to serve a steady stream of business travelers and troops. Coffee also spread to Europe in the same century.

At that time, coffee was taken to western countries with the Turks on a western expedition to Austria. Unexpectedly, it soon captured the hearts of Europeans. According to records, a packet of samples sent from Venice to the Netherlands in 1596 was the earliest coffee bean seen by Europeans north of the Alps. Legend has it that coffee was so rare in Western Europe that at first there was a joke that German housewives used chicken soup to make coffee. According to scholars' speculation, in the booming import and export trade of seasoning raw materials at the end of the 16th century, many coffee beans from the east began to enter the European continent. However, it was not until 1683 that the first coffee shop in Europe was opened by a Polish in Vienna, Austria. Businessmen who are proficient in Eastern European and Turkish languages, led by the brilliant Armenian businessman Johannes Diodato, not only served as translators and guides for Austria during the war.

Moreover, they are also engaged in the hugely profitable coffee trade on both sides of the hot line, not only to meet the needs of their own cafes, but also to meet the coffee parties of many aristocratic and wealthy citizens' families, thus solving the urgent need of shortage of raw materials. won the attention of the upper class. A few years later, the coffee industry, which can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys, developed rapidly. Most of these cafes were opened by his fellow villagers or Turks from other parts of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, naturally with a strong Middle Eastern flavor. Many street corners float out of the coffee hot smell of the narrow shop, you can also see the Istanbul coffee shop unique wall bench, open firewood coffee stove Most of the guests come from vendors, craftsmen and craftsmen who make a living in a nearby market.

Technically, it's just a small, simple coffee shop. At that time, people in the middle and upper classes were still intoxicated in the closed private coffee circle in their homes, and the free citizens, who were keen on the initial economic success, became a force to influence the social and political society.

Today, people are familiar with, or imagine elegant, comfortable, pure European-style cafes with an open social salon atmosphere, will have to wait for about 50 years, until the Enlightenment era of the general awakening of civic consciousness. before it really began to take to the center of life in Vienna and other western cities.