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.

 

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