Coffee was cultivated in Yemen in the sixth century, but it wasn’t until the thirteenth century that the beans were actually toasted and when they made something similar to what coffee is nowadays. The first coffee house was opened in the Mecca at the end of the fifteenth century and it became so popular that it went on to taking the place of prohibited alcohol. Mahoma had given his blessing saying that, after his first cup, he felt able to knock down 40 horsemen and have fifty women. It is not difficult to see why the Arabs showed themselves reticent to renouncing their monopoly of the coffee market. It became forbidden to export one single bean from Arabia that hadn’t first been cooked or toasted, which naturally made the coffee unable to grow. However when someone is determined, and an Indian, Baba Budan, has seven coffee beans on his body which were held by his clothing, he then crossed the border with them and planted them in his land of Chikamalgur, on the south of India. It was from those seven seeds that the Dutch later took to start their plantations in Java, that during many years were amongst the most important in the world. Find great Indian Cooking Recipes to diversify your meal.
The first coffee came to Europe – to Italy – in the beginning of the seventeenth century. At the beginning it was received in different ways, since there were many people that fears that Satan, after having prohibited the Muslims (whose followers believed) from drinking wine to be used in Holy Communion, gave them coffee as a substitute. Some of the priests that had turned into coffee enthusiasts invoked the Pope to give his verdict. The Pope, after having tasted it declared that this delicious satanic drink was so delicious that without a doubt, it would be a shame to leave the unfaithful to enjoy drinking it exclusively, and that they would deceive Satan by baptizing with this drink. And this is exactly what he proceeded to do, allowing in this way the Christians to be “safe” by drinking it.
Coffee extended from Italy to France and Holland and then to England; and by the end of the seventeenth century there were already coffee establishments and coffee shops in all of the main European cities.
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