Did you know that at first the coffee was eaten and not drunk?

If you are a coffee lover and cannot live without having one or two cups a day, you should also know a little about it, but , what would you think if we told you that the coffee was eaten before? Maybe it's a fact that you didn't know about coffee, and today we come to tell you a little about its history.Here we go!

Did you know that at first the coffee ate and did not drink?

The coffee story begins with a goat, or so the legends say. It is said that Kaldi, an African goatherd, one day noticed that his goats acted in a way Strange right after eating a certain bush.The goatherd took some of the berries from the bush for himself, began to taste it and noticed that he had something special.It didn't take long to tell those he knew and that was how the rumor spread about the curious properties of these small grains that we currently know as coffee.

Originally, coffee was a meal and not a drink .The first tribes of East Africa mixed coffee berries (the grain without husk) with animal fat, forming something like energy bars .Coffee also grew in the Arabian Peninsula and it was there that it was first prepared as a hot drink.

Did you know that at first the coffee was eaten and not drunk?

As Islam spread, so did towards coffee.However, the Arabs noticed that coffee plants were not fertile in Arabia, but in Africa where coffee grew naturally.As you will see, coffee did find, however and according to popular stories, other places where grow.

Another coffee legend says that an Indian smuggler, named Baba Budan, left Mecca with fertile seeds stored in his pockets, and later coffee plants were growing in the to India.

As European merchants returned from exotic places like Turkey, they brought news about a new flavor for drinking.Later, the Dutch founded the first coffee farm in 1616 European.

Did you know that at first the coffee was eaten and not drunk?

The coffee crossed the Atlantic around 1727 and then another coffee legend emerged: the Brazilian emperor asked a spy to find new seeds for his country. This spy went to French Guiana and with his charms conquered the wife from the governor to get some coffee seeds as a gift, and that's how Brazil got to know coffee and is now the world's leading producer of coffee!

There are many legends about how coffee arrived to our lives, but the truth is that for many this drink is a blessing; nothing better than a hot cup of coffee to start the day right.

Did you know that at first the coffee was eaten and not drunk?

Do you like coffee? What is your favorite drink?

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Images: Olivier Bacquet, Guilherme Albuquerque, Romain DECKER, Melissa Segal, Jesus Dehesa.

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