What are the origins and legends of coffee

1. The story of the shepherd

Legend has it that around the tenth century AD, on the Ethiopian plateau of Africa, there was a shepherd named Karl. One day he suddenly looked excited and excited when he saw the goat. He thought it was strange, and then after careful observation, he found that the sheep were excited after eating some kind of red fruit. Carl tasted some curiously, and found that he was refreshed and excited after eating, so he picked some of the incredible red fruit and went home and distributed it to the locals, so its magical effect spread.

2. Arab monks

Legend has it that in the mountains of Yemen in 1258, Shek, the chief expelled by his people for committing a crime. Omar, who was exiled to the remote city of Vasaba (in Arabia), when he was walking exhausted on the mountain, he found the birds on the branches making a very sweet cry after pecking at the fruit of the tree. So he boiled the fruit with water, but unexpectedly sent out a rich and attractive fragrance, and the original feeling of exhaustion was eliminated after drinking, full of vitality. Later, Omar collected many of these magical fruits, and when someone got sick, she made the fruit into soup for them to drink, refreshing them. Because he did good everywhere and was loved by believers, his sins were soon forgiven, and when he returned to Mocha, he was revered as a saint for finding this fruit. It is said that the magic cure at that time was coffee.

Coffee culture

The word "coffee" comes from the Greek word "Kaweh", which means "strength and passion". The name coffee comes from the Arabic "Qahwah", which means plant drink. Later, coffee spread all over the world and was named after its place of origin, "KAFFA". It was not officially named "coffee" until the 18th century.

Starting 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, just as the Viennese proverb said: "the Europeans can stop the bow knife of Turkey, but not the coffee of Turkey."

Coffee has functions such as excitement and stomach-invigorating. Many celebrities are inextricably bound to coffee. There are also many celebrities who like coffee, and it is also helpful to their careers. Many politicians rule the world with coffee cups in one hand and the world in the other.

Taleland (1754-1838), an outstanding French diplomat, once said: "the best coffee should be black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love." King Louis XV of France is also a coffee aficionado and likes to cook it himself. He asked the gardener to plant some coffee trees in the garden; he could harvest nearly 3 kilograms of coffee beans every year. The emperor of France Napoleon, who loved coffee all his life, described the feeling of drinking coffee as "a considerable amount of espresso excites me and gives me warmth and extraordinary strength." The great French writer Ang. Balzac drinks a lot of coffee every day. He thinks coffee is good for inspiration. He usually goes to bed at 6 p.m., sleeps until 12:00 at night, then gets up, writes for 12 hours, and drinks coffee non-stop in the process of writing. "once the coffee gets into the stomach and intestines, the whole body begins to boil," he said. "the mind is in position, like a company of a great army that begins to fight on the battlefield." Voltaire, an outstanding French thinker (1694-1778), drank a lot of coffee even in his later years. It is said that he can drink up to 50 cups of coffee a day. Someone once told him that coffee is a chronic poison. He has been drinking it for 65 years and is still alive. In the end, Voltaire lived to be 84. Uncle of the French Enlightenment Movement. Fontenell (1657-1757), who loved coffee all his life, when he lived to be a hundred years old, a neighbor old lady who was only two years younger than him joked to him: "Sir, you and I have lived in the world for so long, maybe death has forgotten us." He replied, "Shh, keep your voice down, you'd better let death stop thinking about us." The great German philosopher Yi. Kant did not like coffee very much in his early years, but in his later years, he had a particularly strong attachment to coffee. James, British philosopher and political activist. Mackintosh is passionate about coffee. He believes that a person's intelligence is proportional to the amount of coffee he drinks. King Friedrich II of Prussia (1712-1785) had a habit of drinking coffee, but what was different was that he drank coffee without water and mixed with champagne. The American general Wu. Grant (1822-1885) was used to eating fresh vinegar juice and cucumbers for breakfast, followed by a large cup of espresso every day.