Little Known Facts About Coffee
How Much Do You Know?
* The name coffee comes from the
Arabic word qahwah, meaning wine,
and not from the town of Kaffa, in
Ethiopia (Abyssinia), as many writers
have supposed.
* There are twenty-four steps in the
“Coffee Process”.
* Our knowledge of coffee is about
1,000 years old.
* Coffee was first mentioned in
literature by Rhazes, an Arabian
physician.
* The use of coffee as a beverage is
about 700 years old.
* The most severe punishment for drinking
coffee was being sewn into a leather
bag and tossed alive into the sea.
* Pope Clement VIII was the first
to baptize coffee and make it a true
Christian beverage.
* “Coffee Smellers” were discharged
wounded soldiers employed as spies
to “smell out” unlicensed coffee
roasting during the coffee monopoly
in Germany.
* Goats actually discovered the coffee
plant. Their shepherd noticed that
they were getting very hyper; therefore, one
day, he followed their every move,
and found out that they were eating a
strange berry that was keeping them
awake all day and night.
* Monks used coffee to stay awake and
concentrate on what they were doing.
