Why is International Coffee Day celebrated?
The event aims to raise awareness of the incredible work of those involved in the coffee industry and promote the fair trade of coffee. So don’t forget to raise your favourite mug of coffee in celebration of International Coffee Day, whether it be an espresso, latte, flat white or other. International Coffee Day is a celebration of the coffee sector’s diversity, quality and passion. It is an opportunity for coffee lovers to share their love of the beverage and support the millions of farmers whose livelihoods depend on the aromatic crop.
Who is the father of coffee in India?
To this day, the Baba Budan Giri hills in Karnataka are regarded as the birthplace of coffee cultivation in India, and Baba Budan is considered the father of Indian coffee. Although a beverage made from the wild coffee plant seems to have been first drunk by a legendary shepherd on the Ethiopian plateau, the earliest cultivation of coffee was in Yemen and Yemenis gave it the Arabic name qahwa, from which our words coffee and cafe both derive.Coffee growing has a long history that is attributed first to Ethiopia and then to Arabia (Yemen). The earliest history is traced to 875 AD according to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and the original source to Ethiopia (Abyssinia) from where it was brought to Arabia in the 15th century.Coffee is legendarily said to have been smuggled into the country by the Sufi saint Baba Budan in the 16th Century, who discovered the crop while travelling through the Middle East during his Hajj.
Ethiopian goatherd named kaldi (or Khalid? Yemen, in the city of Mocha.
Now the Western world’s drink du jour, coffee was first brewed in Yemen around the 9th century. In its earliest days, coffee helped Sufis stay up during late nights of devotion. Later brought to Cairo by a group of students, the coffee buzz soon caught on around the empire.