COFFEE-History  

I dont know aabout the history of coffee but wikipedia would probably give you some ideas about this. I think there are many things that can be researched online about this.

I know Brazil has the biggest corner of the market but I'm not sure if that is where is originated. It's had to tell where though with any degree of accuracy. Hawaii grows beans also & it's been done long enough that it was before typical trade routes. I do remember reading a story about goat herders noticing the animals being very hyperactive after eating cherries from some trees. Those trees turned out to be coffee plants.

On another note, did you know that coffee is the second most-traded commodity in the world? Oil is the first.

Hmm, STARBUCKS comes from three friends who had a passion for exotic teas and opened a quaint store that sold quality coffee beans. It was twelve years ago that Philippines had it's first brand of STARBUCKS in Ayala, Makati. I don't know what other details do starbucks has, but I love their venti's.

It was founded in 1971, having its first store in Seattle's Pike Place Market.

Coffee, anyone? =p

The traditional legend of how coffee came to be based around an Arabian shepherd named Kaldi .
When our hero, Kaldi, found his goats dancing in a rather happy and vigorous manner around a shrub with dark green leaves and bright red cherries he decided that this could be the reason for his energetic animals; so trying the red berries himself he found that they did have a stimulating effect on him.
Coffee was found – thanks Kaldi!!
The less romantic story of the history of coffee is that the coffee plants grew wild in East Africa, as far as around 1000 AD, the Ethiopians mashed up the berries from the plants, mixed them with fatty meat and formed an early type of energy bar.
I wonder if they said that a bar of mushed coffee beans and fat helped you work, rest and play!!
The Ethiopians soon sold the coffee beans to Islamic traders, who brought the coffee beans back to the Arabian Peninsula in the Abbasid Empire to sell there. Coffee began to be better known and people were prepared to pay high prices for it.
By 1453 people had learnt how to roast the coffee beans, grind them and brew it into a drink.
Venetian traders first brought coffee to Europe in 1615.
At first coffee was mainly sold by lemonade sellers and it was believed to have medicinal qualities.
The first European coffeehouse opened in Venice in 1683.
Instant coffee originated in Chicago in 1901 and was the brainchild of a Japanese-American; Satori Kato first came up with instant coffee in Chicago.
Instant coffee, however, wasn't available until Nescafe first marketed it in 1938, after Max Morgenthaler and Vernon Chapman had spent seven years in Switzerland attempting to get the product right, after the Brazilian government had approached Nestlé with a way of storing the coffee after a glut of beans.
Instant coffee is made by heat or freeze drying ground roasted coffee beans, and then removing the water from them leaving a coffee concentrate behind - producing granules or powder.

I'm also interested in the history of coffee, being a heavy coffee drinker myself, so I "googled" and learned the following:

The coffee plant originally grew in Ethiopia over a thousand years ago. Then the Arabians "took" the plant away (that was the term used) and began the first coffee monopoly. The turks were the first to make a drink out of the coffee bean in 1453, they were also the first to set-up a coffee shop. And as they say, the rest is history. ^_^

I'm also interested in the history of coffee, being a heavy coffee drinker myself, so I "googled" and learned the following:

The coffee plant originally grew in Ethiopia over a thousand years ago. Then the Arabians "took" the plant away (that was the term used) and began the first coffee monopoly. The turks were the first to make a drink out of the coffee bean in 1453, they were also the first to set-up a coffee shop. And as they say, the rest is history. ^_^