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Doll, Have A Nice Cup Of Coffee Coffee is the most sought after brewed hot beverage in the world. A large number of people through out the world are now addicted to drinking coffee. It is one of the most popular drinks in the modern day world! Coffee plants are cultivated extensively in more than seventy countries around the world--- primarily located in South East Asia, Africa and Equatorial Latin America. The Ripe coffee “berries” are picked, processed, and dried to yield the seeds inside and then the seeds are roasted before being ground and brewed to make coffee. However, do all of us know when and where Coffee was first cultivated? Coffee was first cultivated in southern Arabia. Yemen takes the pride of being the country in the world where coffee was first cultivated! Ethiopia is known to be the next country after Yemen where Coffee was cultivated too. Opinion, however, differs in this respect. Evidence suggests that the Ethiopians were aware of coffee plants and the seeds long before the Yemenis. Legend says that one Kaldi, the 9th- century Ethiopian goat herder is the discoverer of Coffee. It is said that this goat herder noticed the excitements of his goats soon after the goats ate the beans from a coffee tree! It is also an accepted fact that Coffee plants were introduced into Arab world from Ethiopia through Egypt and Yemen. Ethiopia is now the fifth largest producer of green coffee in the world! May be, even the Yemenis would not believe now that coffee was first cultivated in their homeland in the 15th century. Evidence of coffee- drinking appears in the middle of the 15th century in the Sufi Shrines of Yemen. The natives of East Africa also used coffee in religious ceremonies. Subsequently, secular coffee drinking was banned as the ceremonies conflicted with the beliefs of the Christian Church! The ban continued until the reign of Emperor Menelik II. The Turks who contribute much to popularize the beverage in Europe had also banned its consumption in the 17th century for political reason! Coffee became more accepted in Europe after Pope Clermont VIII deemed it as a Christian beverage in 1600, almost nearly half a century after the Sufi Muslims used coffee in Yemeni shrines in the middle of !5th century and also despite appeals to ban the Muslim drink. Now, Have a nice cup of coffee! A beverage has no religion what so ever!!           |
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Interesting! It reminds me when I was young in the Philippines, my father has planted some coffee in our land.He harvested their fruits and let them dried and he roasted, grind them to make a coffee. I like the aroma. A good coffee is nice when taken in a group of friends. "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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Ahhhh, my favorite beverage. Alfie will have to order the "pretty" coffee. I drink mine black with no sugar. I will munch on the dried coffee beans. Interesting and I am not sure I have ever seen coffee growing. Not in person I do know, on the computer...a possibility.
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I love coffee in any form. Thanks for the info. Recent medical info suggests that contrary to much of our past information coffee actually has many health benefits. Spiritwoman ^i^
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Thanks Mary Ann for stopping by as usual and for leaving informative comments on my post, Your searching comments have not only enriched the blog but have also inspired me to write more such blogs in future which you like to read. Thank you once again and wish you a nice weekend.
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Thank you Mary Ann.
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Interesting! It reminds me when I was young in the Philippines, my father has planted some coffee in our land.He harvested their fruits and let them dried and he roasted, grind them to make a coffee. I like the aroma. A good coffee is nice when taken in a group of friends. Delighted to welcome you here and also thanking you for leaving a post on my blog. Your father was surely a wise man who knew how to cultivate successfully coffee plants on family lands.I am sure that you are yet to forget the aroma of the coffee prepared by him from the roasted beans which he himself planted and harvested too!!
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solitaire, Many thanks for your kind visit to my post, Glad to learn that you have since enjoyed reading the blog, Though I like the aroma of coffee very much yet I like to drink lemon tea in the morning during taking breakfast. Best wishes for a nice weekend.
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Ahhhh, my favorite beverage. Alfie will have to order the "pretty" coffee. I drink mine black with no sugar. I will munch on the dried coffee beans. Interesting and I am not sure I have ever seen coffee growing. Not in person I do know, on the computer...a possibility. It pleases me most to read your meaningful and interesting comments usually you leave on my post from time to time. Hope Alfie enjoyed reading the post too. Thank you once again for stopping by the blog. Best wishes.
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mrsjoe. Welcome to my blog. Have enjoyed very much reading the comments left by you on the post. I like to drink hot tea though I like the aroma of Coffee! ` I avoid drinking coffee after dinner as it keeps me awoke!
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Lisztomania. What a pleasure seeing you here on my blog page! I always avoid giving history lessons to readers. But I am always ready to get such lessons! Just now I have learned something from your grand mother's sayings! She was no doubt a wise lady. Thanks again for stopping by my blog and for leaving comments there on.
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I love coffee in any form. Thanks for the info. Recent medical info suggests that contrary to much of our past information coffee actually has many health benefits. Thank you so much for your kind visit. Such visits and your meaningful comments always inspire me! Wishing you best of everything and a happy weekend. Please enjoy the time.
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akamatt, Many many thanks for stopping by my blog, Glad that you have liked the narrative! I am not at all a coffee drinker but I like its aroma. Thanks again for leaving your comment!
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RRR. Thanks for passing by my post and also for leaving a comment there on. I appreciate Rosie!! Hope,that your continued visit to my blog will inspire me more!! Have a nice weekend
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Maisie. Thanks for providing the information. Needless to say that passing on such information only enrich the related blog and also inspire the blogger!! Thank you once again for visiting this blog page and also for leaving the informative comments!! Best wishes.
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Thank you so much Dan Dee for stopping by and for your post too. Best wishes!
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Looklook, Thanks and thanks again for all. Remain happy and continue your nice blogs. Congrats and Good continuation, with my best wishes. I will always remember whenever I'll take my coffee for sure. Lisa.
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Thanks Looklook and thanks again for all. Remain happy and continue your nice blogs. Congrats and Good continuation, with my best wishes. Lisa. Thank you so much for visiting my blog once again, It is better late than never. It takes time to understand what is real and what is unreal--what is true and what is untrue---what your mind wants and what your mind does not want. It takes time to express the real thing! So thanks again for expressing the truth finally under all predicaments!!! Wishing you best of everything and happy days ahead, Lisa.
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