Coffee is from Islam: A Journey from Controversy to Global Acceptance
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Coffee is from Islam: A Journey from Controversy to Global Acceptance

May 30, 2023

Around the 13th century, in the Middle East, coffee became a popular topic of conversation among people who said, "What's this, I drink the juice from boiling these dark brown beans, and it doesn't make me sleepy!" and people started talking about it. Strict adherents of Islam suppressed those who were involved with coffee, claiming that coffee was against the tenets of Islam and therefore banned! They even called it "the poison that corrupts the masses". However, it eventually spread throughout the world.

Although England is now associated with tea, coffee was booming until the mid-18th century, and in the 17th century, coffee houses flourished in London and elsewhere as places for socializing, discussion, and the exchange of information. There is a coffee called mocha. The name "mocha" comes from the coffee beans exported from the Yemeni port of Mocha, which were called "mocha. Also, Kaldi, which is now the name of a coffee shop, comes from a legendary Ethiopian shepherd who is said to have found a coffee sapling.

Photo: Yemen on the globe (Yemen centered)

One day, Kaldi saw his flock of sheep become active and jumpy after eating a red berry growing in the bushes, and he bit into the fruit himself. This instantly put him in a jovial mood, so he brought it to a monk in a nearby Islamic monastery. The monk, however, did not allow him to use the fruit and threw it into the fire. Then a captivating aroma wafted from it. The roasted beans were quickly gathered from the embers and dissolved in boiling water, becoming the world's first coffee.

-- wikipedia

Photo: wikimedia commons KALDI Coffee Farm Nagoya Minato

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