How African Coffee Beans Were Accepted by European Civilization

Balzac carries a coffee pot with him. With the help of this drink, he can write for 12 hours a day. Beethoven must not use less than 60 grams of coffee beans per cup of coffee, or he will be furious. It is said that Voltaire drinks 50 cups of coffee a day-apart from coffee, no other drink has played such an important role in the history of human civilization. This drink was found in a corner of Europe in the process of outward exploration. Has now become a part of daily life.

Legend has it that coffee originated in a region called Caffa in Ethiopia, where a shepherd noticed that his sheep became restless after eating the leaves and fruits of an unknown plant. After hearing this, monks from nearby monasteries made various attempts to find that baking, grinding and then flushing the seeds of the plant into drinks can keep them awake during long prayers.

In 1582, a doctor in southern Germany named Reinhard Laowulf traveled to the near East. He found that Turks and Arabs liked a strange drink. In his travels, he wrote: ". It looks as black as ink, and locals believe it can cure stomach problems. " Arabs drank coffee in broad daylight public places, which made Reinhard uncomfortable. In Europe at that time, drinking on the street during the day was very undignified behavior. Reinhard's travels are the first documented record of coffee in Europe, and he probably didn't taste it because there is no description of taste in the book.

The Arab world knew about coffee at least hundreds of years before Europe. The use of coffee as medicine has been recorded in Arab medical books in the 10th century, and the prophet Mohamed used coffee to cure narcolepsy in Islamic literature. After about the 15th century, coffee became a daily drink in the Arab world. Coffee wakes people up and excites the brain, so its popularity has its inherent inevitability in the Arab world, where alcohol is strictly banned and mathematics is developed. It can be said that coffee is the wine of the Islamic world. In Europe, where alcohol was already popular, interest in coffee was not so great at the beginning. In the first half of the 17th century, the word "coffee" was exotic and mysterious, relative to the red color of wine and the golden color of beer. The black color of coffee is easily reminiscent of asphalt-an unpleasant memory experience. Pouring asphalt on the human body was a common torture method in the Inquisition in the Middle Ages.