History of coffee, the most famous drink in the world

Almost everyone drinks coffee but almost nobody knows where and how it was discovered many think that the coffee is native to America but the truth is that the plant whose seeds are extracted was already known in Arab countries years before Christianity

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Of the many stories about the origins of coffee one of the most picturesque refers to the humble khalidi shepherd of goats he had begun to notice how his animals sometimes acted strangely and animated after they ate repeatedly from some bushes where small fruits grew and round decided to try them too soon after began to feel a pleasant stimulating feeling and it would not be long before that finding of Khaldy was known throughout the region no one knows who came to dry the berries discovered by Khaldy and then boil them and drink the juice, but the truth is that its stimulating effect soon won him followers every day. During the Middle Ages Europeans knew coffee only by name and considered it only as a decadent brew typical of infidels; Catholic orthodoxy even asked the clement eighth pope to excommunicate the few Europeans who dared to drink it, but the supreme pontiff before issuing an opinion condemning it; He wanted to taste such a dangerous brew. It is said that after having tasted a couple of cups he would exclaim: "This drink of satan is so pleasant and stimulating that it would be a pity if only the heretics can enjoy it". He then imparted his blessing to the café, transforming it since then into a positively Christian brew.

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The way coffee arrived in the new world is due to Gabriel Mathieu du Clieu, a French naval officer stationed in Martinique, interested in botany; he learned that the Dutch had successfully transplanted coffee bushes from Arabia to the East Indians, from there to Europe and France in particular where they were jealously guarded and guarded in royal greenhouses during the time of King Louis, thinking of achieving the same Somehow the persistent officer managed to obtain three bushes from those severely guarded royal greenhouses.

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Then and during the long trip back to Martinique, she took care of her fragile and exotic coffee plants as if they were delicate creatures, even sharing her scant water ration with her. Despite all their attentions only one of the bushes survived the long transatlantic voyage, and finally it would be sown in Martinique miraculously; and for three years after the death of the Frenchman, there were more than seven million coffee plants only in Martinique from its original name "guagua" in the Netherlands, it became coffee in Ethiopia and coffee in Turkish, the Chinese say "Cai fame" in Russia is known as "golpe" and the Americans call it coffee that comes from the form "confia" as it was said in England. But whatever its name that cursed Muslim brew or as those nervous Roman prelates of the middle ages called it, coffee is still the most popular drink in the world; especially if prepared as advised by the famous French politician Charles Maurice de Talleyrand "Coffee must be hot as hell, black as the devil, pure as the angel and sweet as love."