Where Did Coffee Come from?
Coffee Grown Worldwide Can Trace Its Heritage Back Centuries to the Ancient Coffee Forests on the Ethiopian Plateau. There, Legend Says the Goat Herder Kaldi...
Coffee grown worldwide can trace its heritage back centuries to the ancient coffee forests on the Ethiopian plateau. There, legend says the goat herder Kaldi first discovered the potential of these beloved beans.
Who invented the coffee?
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century in the accounts of Ahmed al-Ghaffar in Yemen. It was here in Arabia that coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed, in a similar way to how it is prepared now.
Who discovered coffee and what is the story?
According to a story written down in 1671, coffee was first discovered by the 9th-century Ethiopian goat-herder Kaldi.