The legend of coffee

There are several legends about the origin of coffee, among which the most familiar is the story of the shepherd: About 600 AD, there is a shepherd, found that his flock every night will be unusually excited to cry, he was frightened, to the priest of the monastery for help, the priest carefully observed the flock after a few days, found that the flock is eating an unknown fruit, the priest himself ate a little, found that this fruit can be exciting, since then the priest will be this fruit called "to remove sleep, clean the soul of the sacred goods", coffee has become medicine, Food and drink. Coffee was spread by a Muslim exiled to Yemen for crime in 1200 AD. From its origin to the Red Sea to Athens, Cairo, Iran in 1300, and Turkey in about 1500, coffee gradually became a popular drink.

As for coffee shops, legend has it that they originated in Mecca. Around the 17th century, coffee was gradually popular in Italy, India, Britain and other places through trade routes.

Around 1650, Oxford, England, saw the first coffee shop in Western Europe to smell all day long.

During the Renaissance Movement in 1605, some Christians believed that coffee was a pagan drink, called coffee "Satan's drink", and asked the Pope at that time to order the ban on believers to drink, but after drinking the "devil's drink", the Pope marveled that there was such a delicious drink on earth, so he arranged a baptism to officially define coffee as a Christian drink, so that coffee was extended from Muslim areas to other areas.

The origin of the word coffee

The word "coffee" comes from the Greek word "Kaweh", which means "strength and passion". Coffee tree is an evergreen shrub belonging to the Capsicum family. Coffee for daily drinking is made from coffee beans with various cooking appliances. Coffee beans refer to the nuts in the fruit of coffee tree, which are roasted by appropriate roasting methods.

Coffee epic

Espresso with smoke rings in the coffee house, a cup of warm black serum handed over by a friend in the winter afternoon, or even a cup of warm instant coffee quietly released along the messy desk on busy days, every day, all kinds of people, in different corners of the world, waiting for a cup of good coffee.

People who are addicted to coffee can never imagine how to spend winter without coffee heating. Even non-coffee drinkers can smell the coffee that inspired them in the works of many coffee-drinking writers and artists: Beethoven's music, Picasso's paintings, Murakami's words.

For centuries, coffee has changed history in one of the most sinkable, gentle, yet defenseless ways.

In coffee, find the way to fly.

Legend has it that the earliest coffee trees in the world appeared around the 10th century in the high-ripening mountains of Ethiopia. In the dry season away from home wandering shepherd kardi, suddenly found that the sheep in eating a wild bush fruit, become more active than usual noisy, he curiously picked some fruit to taste, unexpectedly happy to dance on the grassland.

He distributed the fruit he had gathered to the monks of the monastery, often helping them to stay awake during long evening prayers. Stories about magical fruits soon spread far and wide as nomadic peoples wandered. From then on, ground coffee fruit, mixed with animal fat into hard lumps, as an energy-enhancing snack, became their journey after journey, lonely bumps in the nomadic life, a kind of addiction can not quit. Some even say that the earliest coffees, the coffee-skinned Ethiopian women, had learned to brew from fermented coffee berries.

It seems that from the beginning, people have found the way to fly in the heart from coffee.

--From the Middle East, Burning the World's First Cup of Coffee

It is believed that the first cup of coffee in the world was carefully brewed by Arabs. Many oral accounts of European travelers at the end of the sixteenth century describe Arabs sipping black molasses boiled from black seeds, confirming that Arabs knew how to roast coffee and brand it with the hot marks of fire in the thirteenth century long before Europeans embraced coffee.

From the first cup of mellow coffee, after 200 years of circulation, in 1530, the world's first coffee house was finally born in Damascus in the Middle East...

Coffee entered Europe in 1615 with the Venetian merchants who traveled. The French and Italians went crazy over it. They wrote books, wrote poems and even fought wars about it. As the Vienna proverb says,"Europeans can stop Turkish bows and knives, but they cannot stop Turkish coffee." They burn war just to brew a good cup of coffee in the beacon light.

- Coffee, swinging between angel wings and devil's fall

When coffee first arrived in Italy, many conservative clerics suggested that it should be expelled, so Pope Clement VIII decided to taste it himself. After sipping a devilish black liquid from his warm cup, he couldn't help but say,"Let coffee be baptized into God's drink!"

To this day, in many people's minds, coffee still swings between the wings of angels and the fall of demons.

In 1654, Europe's first café appeared on the streets of Venice. Decades later, the release of fragrance coffee shop signs, have been lit in London, Paris, Vienna, in CoCo Chanel, Gianni Versace popular myth before the invasion of the European window modification, coffee house with a most unobtrusive posture, quietly swept the world.

From then on, we entered the coffee house era. Buried deep in the memory of his father and brother, that period of coffee and literature mutually feeding golden years, kicked off.

long history

If the origins of coffee can be traced back to ancient African and Arab cultures, then today's coffee shop is a purely European culture, or more accurately, it is even a cradle of modern European civilization.

Pure European cultural product

Venice in 1645 saw the birth of Europe's first open street cafe. Paris and Vienna followed closely, with relaxed romantic French sentiment and Viennese literati temperament each occupying a grid, becoming the forerunner of the two major trends of European cafes in the future.

The embodiment of the life form of the upper class society

The café brought the formerly closed saloon life of the upper classes to the streets, and in many cities it was the first public social place where citizens could meet freely. Here people read newspapers, debate, play cards, play billiards…The famous "cafe writer" claimed that his lifelong career was first a cafe frequenter, then a writer, and that he did not go to the cafe for coffee, but as a way of being. From Rousseau, Voltaire to many famous literati at that time, they all had their own coffee houses for regular gatherings. For example, Dickens, the founder of realistic novels, Balzac and Zola, Picasso, Freud, the master of psychoanalysis, and a series of brilliant names have written hundreds of years of cultural development history in modern Europe in the frequent visitors 'books of different cafes.