| Company: | Cafesantis |
| Description: | History
he word entered English in 1598 via Italian caffè, via Turkish kahveh, from Arabic qahwa. Its ultimate origin is uncertain, there being several legendary accounts of the origin of the drink. One possible explanation is the Kaffa region in Ethiopia, where the plant originated (its native name there being bunna). Coffee beans were first imported from Ethiopia to Yemen. One legendary account (though certainly a myth) is that of the Yemenite Sufi mystic named Shaikh ash-Shadhili who when travelling in Ethiopia observed goats of unusual vitality, and upon trying the berries that the goats had been eating, experienced the same effect. A similar myth ascribes the discovery to an Ethiopian goatherd named Kaldi. ImageQahwa originally referred to a type of wine, and need not be the name of the Kaffa region. Consumption of coffee was outlawed in Mecca in 1511 and in Cairo in 1532, but in the face of its immense popularity, the decree was later reverted. In 1554, the first coffeehouse in Istanbul opened. Largely through the efforts of the British and Dutch East India companies coffee became available in Europe in the 16th century, at the latest from Leonhard Rauwolf's 1583 account, with first coffeehouses opening in the mid 17th century: in Cornhill, London in 1652, in Boston in 1670, and in Paris in 1671. ImageBy 1675, there were more than 3,000 coffeehouses in England. ImageLegend has the first coffeehouse Vienna opening in 1683 after the Battle of Vienna, taking its supplies from the spoils left behind by the defeated Turks. Another more credible story is that the first coffee houses were opened in Krakow in the 16th or 17th century because of closer trade ties with the East, most notably the Turks. Image Coffee Plantation in Sao Joao do Manhuacu (Brasilien) The first coffee plantation in the New World was established in Brazil, in 1727, and this country, like most others cultivating coffee as a commercial commodity, relied heavily on slave labor from Africa for its viability. ImageThe success of coffee in 17th century Europe was paralleled with the spread of the habit of tobacco smoking all over the continent during the course of the Thirty Years War (1618-48). |
| Address: | Haselrain 12, Killwangen, AG |
| Zip Code: | 8956 |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Phone: | 41 78 8151041 |
| Fax: | 41 78 8151042 |
| Website: | http://www.cafesantis.com |
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