The story about how coffee cultivation and drinking spread all over the world is one of the greatest and romantic stories in history. The story begins in Ethiopia, a cape in Africa, where coffee is most likely to be born in Kafa. There are various uncertainties about the discovery of coffee bean baking methods. One of the stories is that an Ethiopian shepherd was very surprised to find that his sheep would be excited after eating red coffee berries. A more accurate story is that when slaves were brought to Yemen and Arabia from today's Sudan, they would eat fresh and juicy coffee berries when passing through Mocha Island with the same name as coffee. To be sure, coffee cultivation began in15th century or earlier.

Mocha Island is also an important port on the only sea route to Mecca, and it was the busiest place in the world at that time. However, Arabs strictly prohibit the export of any fruit beans, so coffee is not grown elsewhere. Coffee beans are the fruits of coffee trees, but if the shells are peeled off, they will become sterile fruits. The competition to steal the surviving coffee trees or beans ended in the victory of 16 16 Dutch, who planted these fruits in the greenhouse.

At first, Yemeni authorities encouraged drinking coffee very much, because people thought that coffee was more satisfying than Arabic tea. The buds and leaves of Arabic tea can be used as stimulants, but it has serious side effects. The first café s appeared in Mecca and were called "Kewei fainted in Kenis". Cafes quickly spread throughout the Arab world and achieved great success. Here, people play chess, chat, sing, dance and enjoy music. These cafes are luxuriously decorated and full of personality. There has never been a place like a coffee shop before. Social and business activities can be carried out in a comfortable environment, and anyone can enter with the money for buying a cup of coffee.

Arab coffee shops quickly became the center of political activities, so they were suppressed. In the following decades, coffee and cafes were banned many times, but they continued to appear. The ultimate solution is to tax coffee and cafes.

Coffee came to Asia.

At that time, the Dutch also planted coffee in Manabar, India, and brought it to Bataville, Java, which is now Indonesia, on 1699. In later days, Dutch colonies became the main coffee suppliers in Europe. Today, Indonesia is the fourth largest coffee exporter in the world.

Coffee spread to Europe.

Venetian merchants first brought coffee to Europe in 16 15. At this time, two other hot drinks began to rise quietly in Europe. The first kind is hot chocolate, which was brought to Spain from America in 1528. The other is tea, 16 10 was first sold in Europe.

At first, coffee was mainly sold by lemonade vendors, so it was considered to have medicinal value. The first batch of cafes in Europe appeared in Venice in 1683, and the most famous one is Florian Cafe in St. Kyle's Square, which opened in 1720 and is still doing business today.

Lloyd's of London, the largest insurance market in the world, is a coffee shop opened by Edward Lloyd at 1688. He specially prepared a list of insurance vessels for his customers.

Coffee came to America.

Coffee was first drunk in North America on 1688. Soon after, cafes appeared in new york, Philadelphia, Boston and other towns. 1773 The Boston riots were planned in a cafe called Green Dragon. Both the new york Stock Exchange and the Bank of new york were established in cafes, which are now called the financial district-Wall Street.

Coffee was first planted in the United States in 1920s in 18, which is perhaps the most fascinating and romantic story in the history of coffee.

Gabriel is a French navy, who once served in Martrix Island. 1720 On the way to Paris on business, with the help of others and rich personal charm, he got a coffee tree and took it on the boat back. In order to keep its temperature and prevent salt water from invading, he put the tree in a glass box on the deck. The voyage was full of accidents, or at least that's what Gary Boueyre wrote in his diary. The ship was attacked by pirates from Tunisia and suffered a strong storm, so the tree needed to be tied up. Our hero fought fiercely with an enemy who deliberately hurt the tree out of jealousy. In the struggle, a branch was torn off, but the whole tree survived.

The sea finally calmed down, the ship stopped and drinking water began to be distributed regularly. Gary Bue spent all the precious water he got first on the coffee tree, and finally the tree survived, and so did he.

Finally, the ship arrived in Martinique, and the tree was replanted on Pribel Island, surrounded by a thorn fence and guarded by slaves. It began to grow and reproduce, and arrived at 1726, and the first harvest came. According to historical records, by 1777, there were180,000 to190,000 coffee trees in Martinique, and an economic crop that could be planted appeared in the New World at the right time.

But it was the Dutch who really promoted coffee crops in the central and southern parts of the United States. Now coffee is the most important continental cash crop in these areas. Coffee first arrived in Surinam, a Dutch colony, in 17 18, and was first planted in French Guiana and Pará, Brazil. /kloc-in 0/730, the British introduced coffee to Jamaica, and now the Blue Mountain here produces the most famous and expensive coffee in the world. Before 1825, South America and Central America had already embarked on their coffee road. Another important significance of this time is that coffee was planted in Hawaii for the first time at this time, which produces the only American coffee and one of the best quality coffees.

Coffee is today.

For Americans, Seattle, the world's largest coffee consumer, is the new soul home of coffee. A kind of coffee-latte was born in 1970, the wettest city in the United States, and it is popular all over the United States, greatly improving the quality of coffee that Americans drink. Nowadays, in any public place in the United States, there will be one or more cafes serving all kinds of coffee, drinks and snacks.

This new "coffee culture" began to spread to other parts of the world, including those countries with their own coffee traditions, such as Italy and Scandinavia in Germany, which brought changes to the enjoyment of good coffee. Today, from London to Sydney to Tokyo, you can find good coffee in any big city in the world. In the future, more people in the world will drink good coffee.

Coffee is a global commodity.

The importance of coffee in the world economy cannot be ignored. It is one of the most valuable and important products in world trade. For many years, it has been the product of foreign exchange transactions in developing countries, second only to oil. Its cultivation, processing, trade, transportation and marketing provide employment opportunities for thousands of people all over the world. Coffee is very important to the economic and political life of many developing countries. For many least developed countries, coffee export is a large part of their foreign exchange earnings, often exceeding 80%. Coffee is also traded in major futures markets, especially in London and new york.