The Popularity Of Coffee Through History
The exact history of coffee is anybody's guess. No one knows for sure how it originated, but it was discovered in Ethiopia by European explorers.
Coffee was originally thought by European explorers and scientists to be a chewable energy source from Ethiopia. It is believed to be that shepherds first noticed their goats eating the coffee berries. They ended up smashing ripe berries and mixing them with fat from animals and turning them into gummy round little pellets.
This mixture of fat and coffee berries gave Ethiopians a portable and easy to make energy source. Most noticeably, soldiers would be issued these pellets to eat as energy supplements. In no time, these little pellets became a staple food. The cherries could also be eaten whole and had a good amount of caffeine.
There is even evidence that Ethiopians used this tasty berry to make wine. Coffee was also found to be used on the Arabian peninsula for food as well. It wasn't until later that Arabs started drinking these little energy bullets.
The earliest form of coffee being used as a beverage came well before 1000 A.D. The method was to soak coffee hulls in cold water. After some softening, the hulls were fire roasted and then boiled in water. The end result was a pale yellow liquid that could be used ingested as a stimulant.
This remained the main way to make coffee well through the first millennium into the second one. Simple drying and boiling of yellow liquid was what coffee consisted of.
During the 1400's, coffee changed forever. While looking for new ways to store coffee, researchers experimented with sun drying the beans.
After the beans were dried, they would roast them over a hot fire, and then smash them up and put the grounds in hot water. And that basic process is the foundation for the way modern coffee is produced. Now, coffee beans are second only to oil in terms of traded commodities, and is one of the most popular drinks in the world. It has a long history of energizing people, and thankfully we don't have to eat slimy coffee bean pellets anymore.
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