Coffee 2 Tea

Coffee probably originated in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and presumably takes its name from the Kafffa province there. Coffee cultivation moved form Africa to Yemen, which soon supplied coffee to the entire Arab world. At the beginning of the 17 century, the first coffee beans were brought to Italy from the Yemeni port city of Mocha. With siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683, coffee began is triumphal march through all of Europe.

When the Turks retreated, they left behind hundreds of sack of coffee. A clever Viennese took advantage of the opportunity and immediately opened the city’s first coffee house. At first coffee was a rate and expensive and therefore reserved for the aristocracy. To meet the large demand, colonial powers established plantations in all suitable, subtropical areas. But coffee didn’t become a drink for the common people until the arrivals of the new industrial age, when the methods for processing coffee were simplified and the luxury drink became slightly more attainable.