Basic knowledge of fine coffee to understand the history of coffee

Espresso spitting smoke rings in the coffee shop, a cup of warm hands and warm heart in the hands of friends in the winter afternoon, or even busy regular days, messy desks quietly release a cup of soothing instant coffee, every day, all kinds of people, in different corners of the world, waiting for a good cup of coffee.

People who are addicted to coffee can never imagine how to spend the winter without coffee to keep warm. And even those who do not drink coffee can not help but smell the original aroma of their inspiration from the works of many writers and artists: Beethoven's music, Picasso's paintings, and Haruki Murakami's words.

For hundreds of years, coffee has changed history in a way that is the most subdued and gentle, but the most defenseless.

In coffee, find a way for the soul to fly

It is said that the earliest coffee tree in the world appeared in the highly mature mountains of Ethiopia around the 10th century AD. Caldy, a wandering shepherd far from home in the dry season, suddenly found that the sheep had become more active and noisier than usual after eating the fruit of a wild shrub. He curiously picked some fruits and tasted them, but also wanted to dance happily on the prairie.

He distributed the fruits he had picked to the monks in the monastery, often helping them stay awake during the long evening prayers. The story of the magical fruit soon drifted away with the wandering steps of the nomads. From then on, crushing the coffee fruit and mixing it with animal fat into hard lumps, as an energy-boosting snack, became an addiction they could not quit during their lonely and bumpy nomadic life. It is even said that this group of earliest coffee people, Ethiopian women with the same skin color as coffee, have learned to make wine from fermented coffee fruits.

It seems that from the beginning, people have found a way to fly their hearts from coffee.

-- Burning the world's first cup of coffee from the Middle East

It is generally believed that the first cup of coffee in the world was carefully brewed by Arabs. In the oral literature of many European travelers at the end of the 16th century, Arabs sipped a kind of black molasses made from black seeds, confirming that long before Europeans embraced coffee in the 13th century, Arabs knew how to roast coffee and use the hot marks of fire to imprint fragrance.

From the first cup of mellow coffee, after two hundred years of time, in 1530, the world's first coffee shop was finally born in Damascus in the Middle East.

In 1615, coffee was stationed in Europe with the traveling merchants of Venice, and the French and Italians went crazy. They wrote books, poems, and even wars for it, as the Viennese proverb said: "the Europeans can stop the bow knife of Turkey, but not the coffee of Turkey.] They burn the flames of war just to make a good cup of coffee in the beacon lights.

Coffee, swinging between the wings of angels and the downfall of the devil

When coffee first arrived in Italy, many conservative clergy called it Satan's masterpiece and suggested that it be expelled, so Pope Clemon VIII decided to taste it himself, when he sipped a demonic thick black serous from a warm cup. But he couldn't help changing his dictation: "Let coffee be washed into God's drink!"

To this day, in the hearts of many people, coffee still swings between the wings of angels and the downfall of the devil.

In 1654, the first coffee shop in Europe appeared on the streets of Venice. Over the next few decades, coffee shop signs releasing fragrance have been lit up in London, Paris and Vienna one after another. before the popular myth of CoCo Chanel and Gianni Versace invaded the modified European window, the coffee shop swept the world quietly in the least ostentatious and arrogant manner.

Since then, we have entered the era of coffee shops. Buried deeply in the memory of my father and brother, the golden age of coffee and literature began.