When exactly was coffee invented? Who made the first coffee? And where

 

International Coffee Day: When did a person go crazy for coffee? How did coffee become a culture?

HighlightsThere is a lot of literature on coffee all over the world, there are coffee museums, there are clubs of strong coffee drinkers, there are cafes. Coffee has become a culture in three hundred years.

There are many myths about how coffee was invented by man. One thing is for sure. An Ethiopian shepherd found some goats jumping during their regular sleep. Surprised, he went to see what the goats had eaten and reached a plant. He showed the fruit to the local priest. He made a drink out of it. The same coffee.

Even more fantastic than this story is the journey of this drink and coffee plant. From Ethiopia, the drink reached Arabia, from where it reached Europe two and a half centuries later. Earlier, people drank wine or beer with breakfast. Coffee soon took its place (the thing before tea became popular). The popularity of coffee in Europe reached its peak in the mid-seventeenth century. That's when coffee houses were started. But because of its ability to stimulate the brain, in different countries, at different times, coffee was branded as 'Satan's drink' by the critics and coffee drinking was banned. But the coffee lovers got more chewy. Throughout this period, the novels of the smuggling of coffees, the secret exchanges that took place, are readable.
The British believe that coffee was brought to India, but even before that the Mughal emperors knew the wonderful taste of this drink. Because a poet from the court of Akbar's son Jahangir has composed a poem on a coffee pot. Of course coffee may not be available to the general public then. Legend has it that A fakir named Baba Budan, who went on a pilgrimage around 1720, brought seven coffee seeds directly from Mecca and sowed them in front of his cave. 
Where was this cave? On a hill in the village of Chikmagalur in Karnataka.

Whether the story is true or not, the fact is that enough coffee plantations are needed to meet the growing demand for coffee in the country; So  Arab, European businessmen started settling in Sri Lanka and other countries. So coffee spread to the south- as a drink, even as a crop. Today, coffee is famous in the gardens of various parts of South India. There is a lot of literature on coffee all over the world, there are coffee museums, there are clubs of strong coffee drinkers, there are cafes.
 Coffee has become a culture in three hundred years.

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