Coffee...Coffeee

“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.” That’s the recipe for coffee, according to the utterly French statesman Talleyrand (1754-1838).

I was amazed at the fact that coffee has so mannny stories hooked to it..thought to share a few.

The earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking appears in the middle of the fifteenth century, in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen in southern Arabia. From the Muslim world, coffee spread to Italy, then to the rest of Europe, to Indonesia, and to the Americas. Firstly it was hard to believe that coffee was grounded by the Arabs, which is now such a craze in the west.

Also, never thought that coffe would fall in the list of banned drinks unlike the aerated drinks being banned nowadays...yes, in Africa and Yemen, it was used in religious ceremonies. As a result, the Ethiopian Church banned its secular consumption. It was banned in Ottoman Turkey during the 17th century for political reasons,and was associated with rebellious political activities in Europe... is this coffee..or?

American scientist Yaser Dorri has suggested that the smell of coffee can restore appetite and refresh olfactory receptors. People can regain their appetite after cooking by smelling coffee beans...hmmm this smells good!

One study suggests that it may have a mixed effect on short-term memory, by improving it when the information to be recalled is related to the current train of thought but making it more difficult to recall unrelated information...who am I? what am I writing?..huh

What more - The Oromo people(ethnic group found in Ethiopia) would customarily plant a coffee tree on the graves of powerful sorcerers. They believed that the first coffee bush sprang up from the tears that the god of heaven shed over the corpse of a dead sorcerer.

I donno about you, but after all this..I am badly in need of one cup coffee!