Coffee throughout history .. Quick overview
Coffee in Arabic means wine, and it also comes from the verb kaha because it is a coffee-go – appetite by eating. Some of them said they came from the kava region Kaffa in Ethiopia. The word turned from coffee in Arabic to cave in Turkish Kahva, and in Italian they called it Caffè . Then she entered the English language in the history of 1582 through the German language.
With a number of myths centered around the discovery of coffee, the way it was discovered is still different, perhaps the story of Khalidi “ Shepherd of the sheep” is the most famous, who noticed that his sheep became active and did not sleep at night after eating a particular plant .
Some of them said that it was discovered from Yemen by Omar al-Shazli(Abu al-Hassan al-Shazli) of the Sufis, who became famous as a healer in the Yemeni village of Al-Mukha, before being a healer was exiled from the Yemeni village of Al-Mukha and when he was hungry, he found near Wahab in Yemen cherries and began to eat them and found them once, he decided to Homs it became harsh, then tried to boil it to soften but it took out a brown liquid with an aromatic smell.
He drank from it and felt energy and health for days, and the story of the “magic drink” reached the village of Mukha, they allowed him to return and made him an elder. For this reason you may see some up to the present day call it “chadliya”.
XV century
The first export of coffee was from Ethiopia to Yemen, where the first cultivation of the coffee plant took place in Yemen. Yemen was also considered in that era the main center of coffee production in the world, and was the first documented evidence of the emergence of coffee in Yemen among Sufis so coffee was associated with Islam and is considered “Islamic drink” because the Sufis use it to strengthen them in worship, there was the first process of hummus and preparation of coffee.In the year of the Holy Quran, coffee arrived in Mecca and became known there due to being the Islamic alternative to wine.
Opening of cafes
Where Islam spread, coffee spread at the turn of the fifteenth century and reached Egypt and the Levant, where coffee shops were opened in Cairo around Al-Azhar University and in Syria and Mecca (there are no documented dates for the simultaneous opening of coffee shops in this period).In the era of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey opened the first cafe “historically recorded”, which was opened by two Syrians, one from Aleppo and the other from Damascus.
Cafes became a place for the exchange of science between imams and students and also where poems spread and began to grow in popularity and spread. Note that the first appearance of cafes in history was in Mecca, and issued fatwas from different sheikhs launched from Mecca to different places prohibiting coffee in 1511 ad due to its effect on the body and likening it to alcohol, but coffee lovers fought the decision and after the men of Science confirmed that it does not miss the mind was issued fatwas to dissolve it later.
In the Ottoman era, a new way of preparing coffee “ Turkish coffee “ was discovered and admired by the ruler and soon spread in the Ottoman state and became served in cafes and the person attending it was named kahfji .
Sixteenth century
It was in this era that coffee began to move to Europe via the Ottoman Empire and through Yemen directly from the port of Mokha, which is pronounced in English Moka RIA .
Important information: the name Mocha was named from the Yemeni port of mocharr ” Mocha means a strain of coffee, not a drink”.
In 1657, he following his tour of the Middle East by taking coffee beans and teaching the French how to prepare coffee . This was the first acquaintance of the French with coffee.
The first appearance of coffee cultivation in India in the history of 1670 ad, through Baba Budan, who stole 7 beans from the port of Mokha while he spent the Hajj and was returning to his country and planted them in the hills of shikmaglor.
Coffee spread in Austria after the loss of the Muslims in the Battle of Vienna in 1683, where the Austrians seized the spoils of the Muslims, which included Turkish coffee pots and coffee bags they believed to be food for camels until one of the warriorsr LR Lu DL NL spent two years in captivity with the Turks so he knew what the bags were and took them. It is from the spoils that the first cafe was opened in Vienna . It is disputed whether the kulchiki were the first to open a cafe in Vienna or the Armenian مقهى but what we know for sure is that the Austrian tradition of adding milk to coffee to drink coffee dates back tou vczycki .
XVII century
The Dutch grew some of the coffee, which was purchased from the port of Mokha in 1719 and was grown in the colony of Java in Indonesia, so we have a coffee called Java.
Coffee arrived in the United States in 1720 by captainrrlll who was sent by the French King Louis to the Caribbean island of Martinique, and spread to Haiti, Mexico, and elsewhere. In 1727, the king of Portugal sentr toأخذ to take coffee beans from the French and in his own ways he was able to acquire them and grow them in Brazil. Brazil is now the world’s largest exporter of coffee .
Espresso story
In 1884, Angelo morindol LR LR was the first Innovator of the espresso machine, unlike the espresso machines used now, the tool was large and did not bring the espresso in the desired face. After 17 years the Luigi Bezzera add after modifications such as steam pressure, and took a patent on them 1901 under the title of” Innovations in the machinery to prepare and immediately serve coffee beverage” the invention of the machine is quick to prepare draft coffee . In 1905, the Italian bought the Patent and began to manufacture it commercially .
Instant coffee
It was invented in 1881 by a Al Al Al in France . In 1890 m in need the David Strang patented it and started selling it under the name Strang’s Coffee was on the patented “Dry Hot-Air”, also have been attributed to the world Japanese Satori Kato in 1901 m which was presented in Buffalo, New York in an exhibition . George constant Louis Washington developed his own instant coffee and began selling it commercially in 1910 . In 1938, the Swiss company Nestle created “Nescafe” as a trademark and began selling it commercially in Switzerland, Nescafe found when the Brazilian government contacted Nestle to find a solution to its coffee surplus.
The first coffee wave
I focused on mass production and sacrificed taste and quality for profitability . It was pioneered by Nescafe as Nestle, Nescafe Maxwell House Maxwell House and for Folgers where he was a product of this wave is instant coffee .
Second coffee wave
In 1966, the pioneers of this wave were starbucksrrr and Coffee House بيت ‘ الموجة, the second wave contributed to the introduction of espresso to the world and the spread of drinks such as latte, cappuccino, Americano, Mocha and others.Starbucks was the leader in the second wave, with many around the world following the steps of Starbucks as a structural project, where it focuses on the expansion side by increasing the number of branches, which leads to a decrease in the ability to control the quality of coffee, resulting in a lack of quality and continuity in taste.
The third coffee wave
In 2002 the third wave was mentioned. It is a movement to raise the quality of coffee that includes the quality of cultivation, production, harvesting, processing, freshness of roasting, preparation of coffee with high standards of quality. Transparency is an important aspect of competent coffee where the barista can give you information such as: the history of the chickpeas, from which region, and the method of processing. The third wave is called competent coffee because the coffee is rated above 80 out of 100 by an ICO-certified evaluator. It uses different methods such as drawing tools, distillation tools such as Chemex, وال 60 and others.
To this day, coffee still hybridizes with new hands and in different ways .. See what’s next
