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History of Java
The origin of coffee is most often related in this Middle Eastern myth. The story of Kaldi and his dancing goats...Once upon a time in the land of Arabia lived a kind and dedicated goatherd, named Kaldi. Kaldi was a responsible and patient goatherd. He would wait in the evening for his loyal herd to return to him after their daily grazing. One night, Kaldi's goats did not return. He searched for his herd and found them at dawn, dancing with reckless delight amongst patches of shiny, dark-leafed shrubs with bright red berries. He stared, amazed as his goats pranced and bounced with glee. Then he understood, it must indeed be the shiny red berries that caused his goats to dance! Kaldi tried the berries for himself, and soon enough Kaldi was dancing with his goats as well.
About this time of merriment a sleepy, but dutiful monk was on his way to prayer. Soon he came upon a sight so unbelievable. Before him, cavorting in bliss were Kaldi and his goats. Men and goats dancing together, he pondered what could be behind this strange sight. He saw the berries they danced around, being a curious man he gathered some of these red berries to take back to his monastery. He began his own experimentation and boiled the berries creating a beverage. He shared his discovery with the other monks and soon none of the monks in the monastery fell asleep during prayer. Word quickly spread and the use of coffee flourished throughout the rest of the world.
The End
Owing to stories such as this one, coffee was thought to have originated in what is now Yemen, on the Arabian Peninsula. But in fact botanical evidence indicates that coffee arabica originated in central Ethiopia, several thousand feet above sea level, where to this day it still flourishes in the wild, beneath the canopy of the rainforest. How the beans made it from Ethiopia across the Red Sea to Yemen is uncertain. At any rate, coffee arabica seems to have been cultivated in Yemen from about the sixth century on. In Arabia coffee was first used as medicine, and later as a beverage used in religion and meditation. From there it spread into the streets, and the coffeehouse was born. Once the beverage was tasted it spread rapidly throughout the world. The extraordinary story of the spread of coffee from the seed of possibility in one plant to the entire world, displaying the beginnings of the passion coffee elicits from people around the world.
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