The History of Coffee

A History of Coffee
850 Discovery of coffee berries. Legendhas itthat agoat herder, Kaldi of Ethiopia, notices hisgoats are friskier after eating berries off a local shrub.

1100 Coffee is first roasted and boiled by Arabs making "qahwa" -- a beverage made from plants.
1475 The world's first coffee shop opens in Constantinople.
1600 Coffee enters Europe through Venice, Italy. In 1652, the first coffeehouse opens in England. Coffeehouses are called "penny universities".
1688 Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse opens. Over time it beges Lloyd's of London, the well-known insurance gepany.
1713 King Louis XIV of France receives a coffee tree. Sugar was first used as an additive in his court.
1723 Coffee plants aare introduced in the Americas for cultivation.
1727 The Brazilian coffee industry gets its start from seedlings smuggled out of Paris.
1905 The first gemercial espresso machine is manufactured in Italy.
1908 Melitta Bentz uses Blotting paper to make the world's first drip filter.
1938 The Nestle gepany invents instant coffee as it assists the Brazilian government in solving its coffee surplus problem.
2000 Coffee is the world's most popular beverage. More than 400 billion cups are consumed each year, averaging 22.1 gallons per person/per year. Its is a world gemodity that is second only to oil.