The long history of coffee.

As the first coffee beans were picked, roasted, ground, brewed, and scented, the legend of coffee growing and coffee culture spreading across our small planet has become one of the greatest and most romantic stories in history.

There are many legends about the origin of coffee, but most of them have been forgotten because of their absurdity. However, people will not forget that Africa is the home of coffee. Coffee trees were most likely discovered in Ethiopia's KAFFA province. Later, groups of slaves from Africa were sold to Yemen and Arabia, and coffee was taken everywhere along the way. It is certain that coffee was grown in Yemen in the 15th century or earlier. Arabia had the richest port city in the world at that time, Mocha, but prohibited any seed export! This obstacle was finally broken by the Dutch, who finally brought the surviving coffee trees and seeds to Holland in 1616 and began to cultivate them in greenhouses. Although the Arabs banned the export of coffee seeds, they were indeed very isolated from the inside. The first coffeehouses, known as Cavan Kahn, opened in Mecca, the first in human history where anyone who paid the price of a cup of coffee could go in and sit in comfort for business and dates.

Coffee enters Asia

The Arabs failed to spread coffee in Asia, but the Dutch did! In the process of colonization, they planted coffee in Malabar, India, and in 1699 brought coffee to what is now Batavia, Java, Indonesia. The Dutch colonies were once Europe's leading supplier of coffee. Indonesia is currently the world's fourth largest coffee exporter.

Coffee enters Europe

Venetian merchants first brought coffee to Europe in 1615. By 1683, Europe's first coffeehouse had opened in Venice, and the most famous was Café Florentine, which opened in Piazza San Marco in 1720 and is still thriving. It is worth mentioning that the world's largest insurer-London Lloyd's company started from coffee houses.

Coffee enters America

According to historical records, coffee was first planted successfully in Taiwan in 1884, which opened the prelude to the growth of coffee in China. The earliest coffee cultivation in China began in Yunnan Province in the early twentieth century when a French missionary brought the first coffee seedlings to Binchuan County in Yunnan Province. For nearly a hundred years to come, coffee cultivation was only a "speck" in China's vast territory. However, in recent years, the growth of coffee cultivation and consumption in China has become more and more remarkable to the world. Maxwell, Nestle, Colombia and other international coffee companies have set up branches or workshops in China to provide better varieties and better prices for the Chinese market. As a part of the western lifestyle, coffee has officially entered the Chinese family and life; Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other major cities coffee shops with the growth of coffee culture has mushroomed, become a new consumption fashion for young people, decorate the city style.

In 1668, coffee became a fashionable drink in Europe, followed by coffee houses in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and other North American cities. The Boston Tea Party roll of 1773 was conceived in a coffeehouse called the Green Dragon. Today, the famous Wall Street financial district of New York Stock Exchange and the Bank of New York began in coffee shops. Coffee was first cultivated in America in the 1820s, and it was the Dutch who first introduced coffee to Central America and Europe. Coffee spread from Dutch colonies to Guyane française and Brazil, and then from Britain to Jamaica. By 1925, coffee growing had become a tradition in Central America and South Africa. That same year, Hawaii began growing coffee, making it the only coffee producer in the United States, and Hawaiian coffee is one of the best in the world. Brazil is already the world's largest coffee producer, accounting for about 30 percent of global coffee production, while Colombia is the second-largest coffee producer, accounting for about 12 percent of global coffee production. North America is now the two largest coffee consumption regions, in Seattle,"Latay" culture has first interpreted the inherent coffee culture, will be a strange taste of coffee, well-designed coffee equipment and fashion and art fusion along the way, and swept the world.