Coffee history

We are well used nowadays to various eccentricities and are not even making effort to understand them; reduced attention has made us believe that all essential things have already been discovered. It may as well be so, after all, someone invented the bicycle, we only need a few seconds to light a fire and decayed tooth does not demand drastic actions. Imagine to be sitting on a rock in the country, chewing a hay straw, watching flock of sheep, gazing on a nearby pasture. All of a sudden three members of a flock would come running, lively leaping, overturning; giving an impression life is great. Would you be surprised?

Once upon a time in the province of Kaffa, today known as Ethiopia, a young shepherd found sheep dancing with abandoned glee near a shiny, dark-leafed scrub that caused the sheep eccentric behaviour. He did follow their lead and tried the berries by himself. This discovery placed him next to other famous scientifics and researchers – Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, etc.The rest is a history. Coffee timeline >>>