Do you know Turkish coffee? spicy coffee, cardamom, cinnamon.

Turkish coffee has a long history. Although its story is full of politics, religion and war, love always runs through it.

An ancient legend about the origin of coffee

The romance of coffee begins in Ethiopia. Although we are not sure when coffee was discovered, historians believe it is at least 500 years old. Archaeologists have unearthed a fossilized coffee near the site where coffee was first discovered. Tests show that the fossil dates back millions of years, meaning coffee existed long before humans appeared.

So when did humans start drinking coffee? We don't know anything about this, but the ancient legend tells us that there was once a shepherd on the Ethiopian highland. one day, the shepherd became very excited after eating the fruit of his coffee. so he also began to try to eat coffee and found that it worked so well that he made the most primitive "coffee dough" out of animal fat and flour for carrying. The high-energy food, which combines caffeine, powdered sugar, fat and protein, gives the shepherd enough energy to guard his sheep at night.

According to other stories, the shepherd then brought the magical fruit to the Muslim monastery, but the monks there were skeptical of his story and threw the dough brought by the shepherd directly into the fire. But it is this inadvertent move that makes the coffee emit an attractive aroma. So they quickly put out the fire, picked up the charred coffee beans and diluted them with water, thus giving birth to the world's first cup of coffee.

Although coffee beans originated in Ethiopia, coffee is known as a drink in as far away as the Arabian continent.