So what is coffee? To answer this question, I'm going to do a brief summary of where, when and how coffee was discovered.
WHERE & WHEN
Coffee is made from a plant that produces the seeds in which we grind and add hot water and/ or milk to create a beverage. There is uncertainty as to when coffee bean pods were first discovered, but it is known that they were discovered in Ethiopia. Accounts have been recorded mentioning coffee, but there have been known uses of coffee beans since the sixth century.
HOW
One account as to how coffee came about was that a shepherd was shepherding his goats near bushes, and the goats ate strange berries from a bush, and had exhilarating effects on him and his goats. He then brought it to a priest, and he threw them into a fire, where the priest then collected the ashes of the berries which were dissolved in hot water after it entered the fire, therefore producing the world's first cup of coffee.
Coffee bean pods with beans inside
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