"I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now."— Louisa May Alcott
Our previous post was about Coffee Museum, Chikmagalur. In that we couldn't add tiny tidbits about the evolution of coffee. These are quite intriguing and fun facts. Without much ado;
Arabian Nights: Around 1000 AD Arab traders brought back coffee to their homeland from Ethiopia. They created the first ever coffee plantation. They invented a drink named 'Qahwa', one which prevents sleep. It was illegal to carry coffee seeds out of Arabia for a longtime.
Coffee Alimony: In 1453 the Ottoman Turks introduced coffee to Constantinople. Although, the world's first coffee shop, "Kiva Han" opened in 1475, the Turkish law permitted women to divorce their husbands if they failed to provide them with coffee.
Penny Universities: In 1652 Coffee houses were in vogue and became intellectual forums, later dubbed as "penny universities" a penny being the price for a cup of coffee. It was in these coffee houses that the word TIPS (To Insure Prompt Service) originated.
Dutch Connection: In 1690 the Dutch smuggled coffee plants out of Arabia, and are credited to be the first to transport and cultivate coffee commercially in Ceylon and Java.
Bean Bouquet: In 1727 the coffee industry in Brazil was born out of a bouquet of flowers presented to Lieutenant Colonel Francisco de Melo Palheta by the wife of the French Guiana governor, who was enamoured by his good looks. The bouquet contained cuttings and fertile seeds of coffee.
Our previous post was about Coffee Museum, Chikmagalur. In that we couldn't add tiny tidbits about the evolution of coffee. These are quite intriguing and fun facts. Without much ado;
Arabian Nights: Around 1000 AD Arab traders brought back coffee to their homeland from Ethiopia. They created the first ever coffee plantation. They invented a drink named 'Qahwa', one which prevents sleep. It was illegal to carry coffee seeds out of Arabia for a longtime.
Coffee Alimony: In 1453 the Ottoman Turks introduced coffee to Constantinople. Although, the world's first coffee shop, "Kiva Han" opened in 1475, the Turkish law permitted women to divorce their husbands if they failed to provide them with coffee.
Penny Universities: In 1652 Coffee houses were in vogue and became intellectual forums, later dubbed as "penny universities" a penny being the price for a cup of coffee. It was in these coffee houses that the word TIPS (To Insure Prompt Service) originated.
Dutch Connection: In 1690 the Dutch smuggled coffee plants out of Arabia, and are credited to be the first to transport and cultivate coffee commercially in Ceylon and Java.
Bean Bouquet: In 1727 the coffee industry in Brazil was born out of a bouquet of flowers presented to Lieutenant Colonel Francisco de Melo Palheta by the wife of the French Guiana governor, who was enamoured by his good looks. The bouquet contained cuttings and fertile seeds of coffee.
Thanks to Boston: In 1773 Coffee was brought to New Amsterdam, later called New York by the British. Though coffee houses rapidly began to appear, tea continued to be the favoured drink in the New World until the Boston Tea Party, which made coffee drinking a patriotic duty in America.
Courtesy of the article is information availed from the Coffee Museum gallery. There are few more that could very well go into the list, maybe in the later post.
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