National Coffee Day
A beverage, black as ink, useful against numerous illnesses, particularly those of the stomach. Enjoy some "medicine" on #NationalCoffeeDay
On 29 September, which is National Coffee Day, people worldwide celebrate the most beloved morning beverage known to man.
Even though it is a morning favourite, it has been found that this beverage is enjoyed throughout the day. Some people enjoy it hot, others like it cold and it is either taken black or with a variety of additives, including cream, creamers, milk, sugar, flavoured syrups and many more.
There are many accounts of how coffee first came to be. The earliest, credible evidence of either coffee-drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the 15th century. The Sufi monasteries around Mokha in Yemen first roasted and brewed coffee beans, similar to the way it is prepared today. Yemeni traders brought coffee back to their homeland from Ethiopia and began cultivating the seed.
In 1670, Baba Budan smuggled coffee seeds from the Middle East by strapping seven beans to his chest. The first plants grown from these smuggled beans were planted in Mysore and from there coffee cultivation spread to Italy, the rest of Europe, to Indonesia and the Americas.
In 1853, Leonhard Rauwolf, a German physician, returned from a ten-year trip to the Near East and he described coffee as follows: “A beverage as black as ink, useful against numerous illnesses, particularly those of the stomach. Its consumers take it in the morning, quite frankly, in a porcelain cup that is passed around and from which each one drinks a cupful. It is composed of water and the fruit from a bush called bunnu.”
To celebrate today enjoy a cup (or two, or three!) of your favourite coffee. Get together with your friends, go to a coffee shop and catch up. Some coffee shops will have National Coffee Day specials – look out for them and take advantage of them.
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