Origins and legends of the bean
The European coffeehouse revolution
Colonial expansion and the global crop
Modern waves and unique global rituals
How did the pilgrim Baba Budan smuggle fertile coffee seeds out of Arabia to India in 1670?
What was the name of the historic Yemeni port city that dominated the global coffee trade from the 15th to 17th centuries?
schott Yemeni Sufi monks in the 15th century were the first to cultivate coffee plants and roast the seeds.
Before coffee beans are roasted to a brown color, what color are they naturally inside the coffee cherry?
schott Coffee Bean Origins
Kaldi's goats, full of glee, Ate red berries, so happily, Sparking coffee's energy!
schott Istanbul opened the world's first public coffeehouses in the 16th century, transforming social life.
What did patrons in 16th-century Istanbul call coffeehouses due to the intellectual debates held there?
In 1555, the world's first known public coffeehouse, Kiva Han, opened in which historic city?
Goat energy: Legend says coffee was discovered in Ethiopia around 850 CE when a goatherd noticed his flock dancing after eating bright red coffee berries.
Which group of people in 15th-century Yemen used coffee to stay awake for late-night spiritual rituals?
In which modern-day country did the legend of Kaldi and his dancing goats take place?
A hot drink prepared from the roasted and ground seeds of a tropical fruit-bearing shrub. Ninth-century Ethiopian stories credit the discovery of these energizing seeds to a goatherd named Kaldi.