History of coffee.. A boiled drink from the ancient heritage of the Arabs to the world
It was said in ancient times for coffee “qahawi”, and perhaps this word is still used when the people of the mountains areas of the northeast region in the UAE, and the word comes between “qahawi” or “coffee”, and whatever the name, it gives energy to the body, and stimulate emotions to work, and incite thought to search.
It is a drink of Arab Abyssinian origin that grew from a tree of various kinds, and is made from roasted seeds, from which different flavors and smells come out.despite the country of origin, coffee now comes from many countries in this world, so that the tropical climate becomes the most important to be planted, and thus develops into the so-called Global Coffee economy, and now it motivates us to delve into the history of coffee.
Attend
In our days, Coffee has become present in all social, educational, political and economic events, a strong presence in all its fragrant colors, it is universally agreed that it is on the one hand a catalyst for work, decisions and studies, and on the other hand influential in the human mind, it was not what repels it, because coffee farms are expanding day by day after these seeds have built their decent position in the export markets for international trade.
Linguistically
As the interpretation of coffee came in the dictionary of the Arabic language, it is “wine” in the heritage of the Arabs before Islam, as interpreted as boiled drink and pure milk, while some dictionaries went to interpret coffee fertile, but today the word has taken a turn to meet, as a cafe and forum for meeting, to develop into a daily and necessary climate, and when some weather drinking and mood can not do without.
Birth
If we know that coffee is originally a cultivated plant and therefore a fruit of a tree, then where is its origin, origin and Origin before it reaches all the peoples of the Earth? – Because we want this plant a description and identity, we returned to the French encyclopedia to find that it originated first in Abyssinia, (i.e. Ethiopia, to become this country the origin of coffee and its history, and other researchers went to document those trees that they are of the genus coffee and that they are from an Arab family, or as they Surrounded by a silver skin that adheres to it to match the seed which can be grinded.
One coffee farmer says that this fragrant and beautiful fruit, especially the Arab ones, that it is very sensitive and needs a rather cold climate, as it suits the lowlands, while the high mountains are less productive there.
But man and his intellectual nature and over time, renew what he has, to go to the hybridization of coffee by pollinating it easier to produce a new “genetic”, and pave the way to bring out this drink Rich in caffeine different taste and sometimes rare, and therefore classified luxurious, and this is what the Netherlands did, genetic modification has become one of the most important new global experiences, especially with regard to fields and agriculture.
Enemies of coffee
We all know that the rhythm of this world is sometimes ambiguous, otherwise where do Enemies appear, How do destinies change As well as coffee appeared to have a fungus called “coffee rust”, after watching a special program about coffee, we noticed the exit of deadly parasites attacking the leaves of the fruit to give it a different color, and this type of malicious parasites with a slow effect the fruit can not resist all the time, to become the relationship between them a confrontation between defeat and victory.
Coffee migration
We return again to coffee with a pale color and hot bitterness and appetite, which took spread from Ethiopia since the 15th century, to the Ottoman Empire, which will be controlled, and the Abyssinian name “kava” to be adopted by the Turks, and then enter through the Mediterranean trade to Venice in Italy in 1610, to be adopted by Britain as “coffee”.
This came from the author of the book “tea and chocolate” Sylvester Dufour, he explains about the spice trade, this great trade and the art of tasting coffee officially in Europe when it began through the Ottoman embassy there, to take it by the name of Turkish coffee “Turkish” and presented in a modern Turkish style at the time.
Between “cafe” and “Mokha”
When coffee entered France, and was adopted under the name “Cafe” after it came out with an official permit from its government, after examination in its laboratories and the description of the tree of the product with its seeds and farms, and even the roasting exam, the coffee took its full innocence to sit accredited in the councils of the French.
But there is a beautiful report written by a merchant named Philip in 1685, he was trading in spices, mentions how coffee was transported from the Yemeni port of Mokha and 4 thousand years ago, confirming that it grew for the first time in Yemen, reaching the old Red Sea ports, where the port of Suez, Jeddah and others after loading on ships.
Of course, there were other means of Transportation, namely land roads and transportation over camels, and a long caravan later goes to hajj with pilgrims before Islam, and therefore to Damascus and Aleppo, to become the discovery in the 15th century and spread in the 16th and 17th centuries late, there are forgotten beginnings going back thousands of years, to confirm that coffee is Arabic origin and origin.
Writers and celebrities of the greatest drinkers
French thinker and writer Voltaire, who lived in the 18th century, that is, in the age of enlightenment and the spread of coffee, exceeded his consumption of up to 12 large cups of coffee a day, and the amount increased until he died with coffee according to the report of his doctor, who wrote that he had died with”caffeine”, in his last years increased the amount of drinking to 54 cups a day, famous for saying “nothing is done without coffee”, especially after warning his friends of the unreasonable amounts consumed, because of the danger to his health, however he did not care about their statements and lived until he was 84 years old.
In the territory of Austria was “Beethoven” drink daily equivalent to 60 grains of coffee in each cup, especially during the creation of his music and put the melody, as well as the Danish philosopher “Kierkegaard” who is famous for his unusual way of making his coffee, as he stated in his memoirs that he was filling his coffee with a lot of sugar, and consumed daily about 50 cups.
If we go to the musician Johann Bach, it was the title of coffee after the peak of its consumption, as some testify that it was not without social problems caused by addiction to it, especially among the creative and famous classes.
Finally, politicians did not stop themselves from drinking coffee, and no doubt we can not ignore the most important political figures, the 26th president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, who drank 4 liters of coffee a day, a quantity that is closer to the imagination, as his son said in his diary: “it was like a bathtub”.
Myth of discovery and modern-day icon
There is a legend about the discovery of coffee that says that a shepherd made his flock consume fruits somewhere, not knowing that they are the fruits of coffee coffee, so that the pasture acquires full vitality, and this led to the shepherd’s curiosity to discover the fruits of the tree and thus discovered coffee.
Since that Abyssinian legend, it has become the most used Cities for coffee, which is the richest and most stable and developing, but coffee has become a cultural and intellectual mark, to enjoy the people who drink it in front of shoppers in the”malls” of the owners of social prosperity and behavioral sophistication, and play elegant and ceramic coffee cup and sparkles over the tables and in the hands of those who make it skillfully, a manifestation of the Times.
Coffee between the pleasure of meeting and the pain of prohibition
From the young coffee trees, which are 3 years old, to large trees in farms with abundant production, we go back to the 15th century to open cafes for this flavor stimulating the mind and body and in front of chess tables and poems, and low price, for everyone to use and meet around all layers of society, until it was declared banned by the Ottoman sultan in all his lands, including Egypt, because the drink is suspected of intoxicating wine, and those who drink this coffee are persecuted, despite the attempt of some to defend this drink because it is healthy for the mind and body.
The origins of Arabian hospitality in the UAE and the Gulf
In the UAE and the Arab Gulf countries, the origin of hospitality is Arabic coffee, served in small circular cups with dates or candy, while everything that happens these days in the family hospitality morning or afternoon of foods and varieties we know and do not know it is foreign to the Customs and heritage of reception established in the mind of the first, to exceed some customs in order to reach the concept of generosity, carrying another meaning that we can say the weight of change and change.
However, we still touch hospitality on its origins in the palaces of hospitality and Grand councils, and no matter what the progress of time, Arabic coffee still manifests itself among the guests, becoming the most important and supreme symbol of reception.
1630
This year, the “coffee house” was established in Constantinople, so that coffee houses spread rapidly and in large quantities throughout the cities of the world gradually until coffee later became the drink of pleasure, guests and storytellers.
1672
It was in this year that Pascal Armenian founded the first cafe in Paris, near the bridge “Neuf”, the very founder of a cafe in London in 1685, where he invented a new way of making coffee.
1675
This year, coffee drinking was recorded for the first time in Belgium, specifically near the castle of “Ferrer” in the presence of Louis XIV, where a Turkish diplomat presented him a coffee drink on the occasion of the Treaty of “Ferrer”, which some call the “coffee convention”.
Source: Reem Al-Kamali Al-Bayan newspaper
https://www.albayan.ae/five-senses/culture/2018-11-05-1.3401175
