Coffee has a rich, bold history, with all the ingredients of a well-produced premium cable miniseries: kings, spies, pirates, lovers, religion, politics, and war. Over the years, its advocates and acolytes have called it “koffie,” “kahve,” “qahwah,” “quwwa,” “kaafa,” and “cafe,” and the path it took to your kitchen counter is rife with treachery, battles, seduction, and dumb luck.

The myth of Kaldi the Ethiopian goatherd and his dancing goats, the coffee origen story most frequently encountered in Western literature, embellishes the credible tradition that the Sufi encounter with coffee occurred in Ethiopia, which lies just across the narrow passage of the Red Sea from Arabia's western coast.

Legends and myths state that a goat herder by the name of Kaldi found the first coffee forest. #coffee #didyouknow #coffeeknowledge #coffeetalk #coffeedaily #coffeeholic #coffeefacts

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What is the history of coffee? According to the National Coffee Association of U.S.A. Inc., it all begins with a legend. As the story goes, a goatherder in Ethiopia named Kaldi discovered the magic…

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Who discovered coffee trees? Who invented coffee as we enjoy it now? Learn coffee history and its journey across the globe from the 9th century to today.

Coffee was discovered in Ethiopia when the goat herder Kaldi noticed his goats were dancing after eating the beans.