THE AROMATIC STORY OF COFFEE

Chocolate, men, and Coffee - Somethings are better rich wrote an Unknown.

Coffee – seems so harmless and feels so magical. Each time you hold the mug (or the cup) the aroma stirs your nostrils for more, the decoction blends beautifully giving a treat to your eyes, and the warmth makes you calm even in summer.

Coffee was eaten before it became a drink !!!

But did you know coffee was eaten before it became a beverage?

The legend of Ethiopian coffee estates says that a Kaldi, a goat herder had fed the coffee beans to his goats. He observed them active for a longer period than usual and tried eating it himself once. It kept him awake for a longer time and helped him manage his work better. He and his wife made energy bars out of these coffee beans and ate them until Kaldi, one day revealed about the energy bar to the abbot (head of the monastery) of a local monastery.

The abbot made a drink out of it for an easier consumption. He was a monk after all!!!

And hence came COFFEE into existence which is now  a billion dollars business all over the world.

5 Historical attempts to ban Coffee.

Ever imagined a ban on coffee. Seems next to impossible now. But the period between 16^th to 18^th century witnessed 5 big attempts to ban coffee from their territory.

1.       In 1511 MECCA banned coffee as the governor thought coffee would lead to more hanging out, stimulating radical thinking and thus lead to a stronger opposition. Also a few Sufi saints used it as a funeral bowl to keep them awake whole night for prayers.

2.       In Italy the clergymen pressed a ban on coffee and label it satanic but Pope Clement VIII did fall in love with its taste and the lord saved the coffee from a BAN!!

3.       When Murad IV claimed the throne of Ottoman he banned coffee and its usage led to penalities like first use called for a beating and the second time the user was sewn in a leather bad and thrown in the sea! I wonder if a census of such death was recorded? A lot can really happen over a coffee!

4.       Sweden had a sweet way of killing convicted murderers - making them drink tons of coffee. Convicts loved and the monitoring doctors bored counting how many cups of coffee would kill a man.

5    Fredrick the Great of Prussia banned coffee as the consumption of beer produced was hindered. So he made a royal statement for circulation “His Majesty was brought up on beer”.

Royal Cheers to beer didn’t seem to work the magic like coffee though.

Be it coffee, latte, cappuccino, espresso or just our own FILTER KAPI, we love it and a ban on it would surge a war.