A thousand years of lies on the Origin of Coffee
When we talk about the origin of coffee, we all think of the familiar legend that Kadi, a shepherd in Ethiopia's Cafa region, stumbled upon the wonderful use of coffee while herding sheep, and was popularized by local elders. Is this legend the origin of coffee? How real is it? Let's find out together. According to legend, the story of the shepherd should take place in the 5th-8th century AD, and the earliest written record of this legend is neither Ethiopia nor Yemen, but it was written by the Roman Rothschild. Neroy 1671 was proposed in the world's first coffee paper, and was immediately questioned and refuted by many scholars. There is no record of such an important event in the place where it happened, and it was written by scholars thousands of miles away only 1000 years after the incident, and its authenticity is indeed worth considering. But people always like beautiful legends. In 1715, the French traveler Jean de La Roque wrote a travel book "Voyage to Yemen" devoted to the origin of coffee and quoted the legend of the shepherd, which was a bestseller at that time, and the legend of the shepherd became a lie that had been told a thousand times and began to spread widely, and Ethiopia and Yemen were happy to see it work to promote tourism.
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Coffee Museum
Of the many museums in Vienna, the Coffee Museum, which opened only in 2003, is perhaps the youngest. Walking into this museum, there is a very strong Viennese coffee culture. The director of the museum, Mr. Ednunde Meyer, warmly welcomed us into a "coffee world" that is both familiar and unfamiliar.
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How much do you know about the history of coffee
In the fifth and sixth centuries AD, African Ethiopian shepherds found sheep dancing wildly after eating red fruit. In 1530, the first coffee shop appeared in Damascus in the north of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. In 1601, the word coffee first appeared in British newspapers. In 1650, the first coffee shop in Britain opened at Oxford University. In 1683, the first street cafe in Europe was in Wei, Italy.
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