Ethiopian Coffee Culture

About the history of coffee . . . because we all thrive on it<smile> It starts with the aroma! What is better then brewing coffee . . . unless it is roasting coffee! In the early days when Starbucks was a hole-in-the wall at the Farmer's Market in Seattle, the heavenly fragrance of roasting beans attractant people to the market, and it only got better going into the tiny shop, where coffee beans were roasted to preference and sold.

The article is a fascinating history of the start of coffee culture - discovery attributed to Ethiopa, though the article suggests coffee beans were used much earlier, the beans chewed for endurance. The other coffee origin myth, of the discovery of coffee in Mocha, Yemen. However, it seems more probable the benefits of coffee beans were independently discovered wherever coffee grew!

There is a also link in the article to the elaborate lengthy daily custom of the tradition of preparing and serving of coffee in Ethiopia, which is more amazing because of being three times a day!