Coffee has its beginnings in Ethiopia

The story of coffee has its first phase in Ethiopia, the original home of the coffee plant, coffee arabica, which still grows wild in the forest of the highlands. Though nobody is sure exactly how coffee was originally discovered as a beverage, it is thought that its cultivation and use began as early as the 9th century. Some authorities assert that it was cultivated in the Yemen previously, around AD 575. The only thing that looks like confident is that it originated in Ethiopia, from where it traveled to the Yemen about six hundred years ago, and from Arabia it began its journey around the world.

Among the many legends that have developed concerning the origin of coffee, one of the most popular account is that of Kaldi, an Abyssinian goatherd, who was reported to have seen the goats eating berries and then having a lot more energy, and then he tried some of the berries and the same thing happened to him, his energy levels went sky high. The berries were free growing in the high lands of Ethiopia & hence we then had one of the first coffees. The visiting Arabians took some of the plants to their land to see if they could grow them after that we had the famous Arabica coffee beans.

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