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咖啡知识小百科 本文档分享自spr咖啡小站, If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. Abraham Lincoln Desert fruit Every cup of coffee you drink owes its existence to a fruit that grew wild in the Yemeni desert. The Sufi mystics of Yemen were the first to roast and brew the seeds into a drink. It helped them stay awake during long hours of prayer. It spread to Ethiopia where it was banned by the Ethiopian church and then to the Arab world. Coffee houses called kaveh kanes from where we get coffee and caf? sprang up on every corner. By the 15th century, Mecca was filled with men with mugs. Coffee houses The habit spread to the rest of Europe in the 17th century. One of the first coffee houses in England was opened in Oxford by Jacob, a Turkish Jew, in 1650. Its coffee was described as a simple Innocent thing, incomparable good for those that are trou Coffee became popular with scholars as it sharpened the mind rather than dulled it like alcohol. Coffee houses became meeting places, debating chambers and even laboratories. Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley once dissected a dolphin on the table of a coffee house in London. Lloyds of London and the Stock Exchange started life as coffee houses. But the craze had its detractors. The brewing of ale had long been the preserve of women, known as brewsters or alewives. In 1674, a group of them ?alarmed at falling trade in taverns ?drew up the Womens Petition Against Coffee, claiming: Coffee makes a man barren as the desert out of which this unlucky berry has been imported. Commodity For centuries, Arabia controlled the coffee industry until as legend has it a pilgrim from Mecca smuggled beans back to India and began an agricultural revolution. The Dutch also managed to get a plant back to Amsterdam and to their colonies in Indonesia, so Europe soon had new cheaper sources for their beans. Coffee is now grown in more than 70 countries and is the second most commonly traded commodity in the worl