Cooee Coffee Tours

COOEE COFFEE

• The history of coffee dates back centuries to old oral traditions in present-day Somalia, Ethiopia, and Yemen.
• It was already known in Mecca in the 15th century. Also, in the 15th century, Sufi monasteries in Yemen used coffee to aid concentration during prayers.
• Coffee later spread to the Levant in the early 16th century, causing controversy on whether it was halal in Ottoman and Mamluk society.
• In the second half of the 16th century, coffee arrived in Italy through commercial Mediterranean trade routes, while Central and Eastern Europeans learned about coffee from the Ottomans.
• By the mid-17th century, it had reached India and the East Indies.
• Coffee houses were established in Western Europe by the late 17th century, especially in Holland, England, and Germany.
• By 1852, Brazil had become the world's largest coffee producer and held that status ever since.
• Since 1950, several other major producers have emerged, notably Colombia, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, and Vietnam.
• Modern production techniques and the mass production of coffee have made it a household item today.