The History of coffee

History of Coffee
Coffee berries were first discovered in c 850. The legend is that there was an Arabian shepherd whose name was Kaldi who had done many experiments with them and when feed to goats they began to feel more lively and happier. They realized it had a stimulating effect on the goats and soon enough coffee was born. In c 1100 the first coffee trees are refined on the Arabian Peninsula. They first time it was roasted was by the Arabs. Later in 1475 the world’s first coffee shop opens in Constantinople. Two separate coffeehouses are established later in 1554. Next coffee was imported into Europe through Venice’s port and the first coffeehouse opened in Italy in 1654. Coffee was first introduced to America in 1607 when the founder of Virginia at Jamestown, John Smith, had brought it with him on one of his expeditions. Many people became used to it and continued to drink it. Soon after it became just a hit in the "New World," the first coffeehouse opened in England. When they were first established they were called, "penny universities" because the price for a cup of coffee only cost one penny. Also at this establishment the word, "TIPS" was coined because at the shop on the counter there was a sign reading, "To Insure Prompt Service." With that said those people who wanted prompt service would put a penny in a cup and the phrase was later shortened to, "TIPS." Later King, Louis XIV was given a coffee tree as a gift and in his court sugar was first used in coffee. From then on it has become a habitual thing to put sugar in your coffee. In 1690 the first transport of coffee commercially was by the Dutch who then began to cultivate it nationally. Then the smuggling of coffee begins in Arabia and it is transported to the East Indies. Berlin was the last major country to open a coffeehouse in 1721 and from then on coffee is a commodity now. Next Coffee Plants begin to establish in North and South America, and they begin to export coffee. In 1727 there were many coffee seeds smuggled out of Paris and it helped to start the Brazilian coffee industry. By the early 1760’s Venice has already over 2,000 coffee shops. The idea for the first espresso machine was created in France in the 1820’s. It used natural gas and hot air to become the most popular way of roasting coffee. All coffee shops later begin serving espresso drinks and change ordinary coffee to a specialty drink. In 1908 the worlds very first drip coffee maker was created, it used blotting paper to create a filter and was invented by Melitta Bentz. Many years later the espresso maker was perfected which used a high-pressure extraction and produced a thick layer of crème to the drink. They began mass producing these inventions and were later seen in every coffee shop throughout the world. Finally in 1995 more than 400 billion cups of coffee are consumed each year and coffee has become the world’s most popular beverage (Coffee History).