Coffee Territory

The sort of coffee-tree Coffea arabica came from Ethiopia (Abyssinia), namely from the south-west part of Ethiopian Highlands, which is called Kafa. People used leaves and fruit of coffee-tree since ancient times, long before the Semite tribe on the Arabian Peninsula had known about this plant.
The discoverers of coffee weren’t the Arabs, but Ethiopians – [...]

Have you ever thought about coffee’s origin?
The legend narrates the story of Ethiopian goatherd Kaldi, who has noticed that every time after ripe red cherries his goats were too active and excited. The goatherd has had firsthand knowledge of fruit’s effect.
The goatherd shared this story with monks. Through trial and error they made a decoction [...]