Second only to oil, coffee is the most sought after legally exchanged commodity in the world. We love it, we crave it, and we drink it in enormous quantities. It is estimated that 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed each day worldwide. New Yorkers are said to consume seven times the amount of any other U.S. city, which is why it may seem like there is a Starbucks on every edge of Manhattan. Famed French writer and philosopher Voltaire was believed to have drank 40 – 50 cups per day.
Coffee is a daily #commodity in the lives of millions of people around the globe. Where exactly did this caffeinated delicacy begin?
As with some other foods that have lingered for centuries, coffee’s beginnings are developed in mystery and lore. There folklore Ethiopian legend that coffee was discovered by a goat herder named Kaldi, who discovered his goats frolicking and full of life after eating the red fruit of the coffee bush. Kaldi sampled the fruit for himself and had a similar energy. After seeing their odd behavior, a monk took some of the fruit back to other monks; they all stayed awake and alert all night. From then, they would have been reacting to coffee’s spurge of caffeine. This stimulant from nature also serves as an inborn plant pesticide, protecting the coffee bean fruit from pest that ate on the bean fruit.
According to a folklore wrote down in 1671, coffee was first found by the 9th-century Ethiopian goat-herder Kaldi.
The history of coffee goes back to centuries of old oral folklore in present day Ethiopia, though neither where coffee was first cultivated nor direct evidence of its consumption previous to the 15th century have been discovered. Sufi monasteries in Yemen decided to use coffee as an aid to concentration during meditational prayers.
Coffee was finally traded and sought to the New World by the British in the mid-17th century. Coffee houses were popular, but it wasn't until the Boston Party in 1773 that America's #coffee culture was changed forever: the revolt against King George III switch from tea to coffee among their colonists.
Now Coffee has developed into many flavors and varieties. I have provided a link if your interested in trying some of the new tropical #kona #coffee varieties and methods developed in Hawaii.
Coffee production is transforming rainforest ecosystems so as can negatively alter plant and animal species living. Worldwide, the use of mass coffee production is leading to deforestation, soil erosion, and water pollution In many areas of the world.
Coffee processing plants often discharge waste into rivers creating pollution and contamination problems which eutrophication of the water systems and eliminate aquatic plants and animals. As coffee demand surges, so does the vast #coffee trade and in come the new suppliers
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