Coffee: A Cup of Knowledge

A Cup of Knowledge Ethipoia 500-1500 Coffee is discovered by a goat herder who sees his goats frolicking and energetic after eating the berries of a coffee plant. There was a penalty of death for taking coffee seeds outside of Yemen. Slaves brought coffee from present day Sudan into Yemen and Arabia. Yemen (Arabia Felix) Mocha The biggest port in Yemen at the time Indonesia Dutch Spies smuggled a coffee plant out of Mocha 1616 Java 1706 Amsterdam The first coffee beans from Java arrive in Amsterdam, as well as a coffee plant for the Botanical Garden. The Netherlands 1715 The Noble Tree Paris King Louis XIV was a fervent coffee drinker. The Dutch gifted him with a single coffee tree, which had been obtained in Mocha. France France built the first greenhouse in Europe to house the noble tree. French Naval Officer Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu stole a coffee plant, in order to bring coffee to the Caribbean. On the journey from France to Martinique water had to be rationed. Legend has it that de Clieu shared his water rations with the 1720 coffee plant, in order to keep it alive. Martinique Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu's plant is considered the parent of most of the coffee in Central and South America. Coffee is the second most valuable traded commodity in the world. 1 Coffee Tree I LB Coffee per Yea 3-5 Thousand The estimated number of varieties f coffee in Ethiopia -30 The estimated number of varieties of coffee in the rest of the world bachstitch Follow your interests at http://backstit.ch Sources http://www.coffeereview.com/reference.cfm?ID=8 http://www.homebrewcoffeeblog.com/blog/2014/3/19/peter-giuliano-on-the-joe-rogan-experience-video http//media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/04/25/coffemap_archive.jpg http://www.co.org/coffee_story.asp © 2014 backstitch Inc.