Whether it was Kaldi or Omar who first discovered it, coffee is considered native to the African country of Ethiopia.
At least 1,000 years ago, some enterprising traders brought coffee across the Red sea into Arabia (modern-day Yemen) where Muslim monks began cultivating the shrubs in their gardens. At first, the Arabians made wine from the pulp of the fermented coffee berries.
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Yemen Mokha Mattari is now available and in limited availability. Yemen coffee is the 1st commercially produced coffee in the world. Much of the coffee is still grown from heirloom varietals on trees ... Read More >>Congratulations to Ginger Scott who won the Banner Graphic drawing for (5) 1lb. bags of coffee. Thank you to all who participated. Read More >> |
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