{"id":53862,"date":"2025-10-24T11:39:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/?p=53862"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:05:57","slug":"where-did-coffee-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/where-did-coffee-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where did coffee come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Legend<\/h4>\n

Have you ever wondered how coffee became a thing?\u00a0 The legend goes that in what is now known as Ethiopia, Kaldi, a goat herder, saw his goats eat the leaves and berries of the tree.\u00a0 He watched the goats become energetic, and they didn’t sleep that night.\u00a0 Some versions even say the goats danced.\u00a0 Next, Kaldi tried some berries, and found himself full of energy as well.\u00a0 And then, a monk noticed, and asked Kaldi about the source of his energy.\u00a0 Kaldi shared the berries, and the monks at the monastery would use them to stay awake for late night prayers.<\/p>\n

The History<\/h4>\n

Here’s the part we are sure of:\u00a0 By the mid 800s CE,\u00a0East African peoples would grind up the coffee cherries into a paste with animal fat and roll it into balls.\u00a0 Warriors used this snack to remain alert and effective in battle.<\/p>\n

Around 1000 CE, Ethiopians fermented the dried beans in water, making a sort of wine.\u00a0 This was the first use of the beans as a beverage.<\/p>\n

The first mention of coffee as we know it was by the Persian philosopher Rhazes, who called it “bunchum”, saying “bunchum is hot and dry and very good for the stomach”.\u00a0\u00a0Coffee’s stimulating properties were believed to imbue religious ecstasy, and the drink was associated with the mystical and mysterious.<\/p>\n

By\u00a0the 1400s, coffee had made it to the Yemeni port city of\u00a0Mocha.\u00a0 From here, it would travel to North Africa and beyond.\u00a0 During the 1500s, various imams placed bans on coffee that lasted for a few years before being reconsidered.\u00a0 Coffee trees and drinks continued to spread.\u00a0 Alcohol was banned at this time in many Muslim communities, so coffee houses popped up all around the Ottoman Empire.\u00a0 Eventually, coffee grew to become a part of daily life for most people, and there was even a Turkish law that allowed a wife to divorce her husband if he refused her coffee.<\/p>\n

As you know, coffee has continued to spread across the globe.\u00a0 Later we’ll look at coffee’s introduction in Europe<\/a> as well as it’s history with colonialism in the Americas<\/a>.\u00a0 For now, we’ll be grateful for some goats and human ingenuity, reaching across time to our own morning rituals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Legend Have you ever wondered how coffee became a thing?\u00a0 The legend goes that in what is now known as Ethiopia, Kaldi, a goat herder, saw his goats eat the leaves and berries of the tree.\u00a0 He watched the goats become energetic, and they didn’t sleep that night.\u00a0 Some versions even say the goats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,376],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-53862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-coffee","category-coffee-history","tag-coffee-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54045,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53862\/revisions\/54045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}