Friday, May 28, 2010

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The cafe is attached from its origins in a certain spirituality, ecstasy or, more pragmatically, to combat fatigue, and subsequently linked to the artistic, intellectual, chat, social skills, critical thinking and, consequently, the political struggle. Even the Anglo Pascius Georges said, with more Christian spirit of historical accuracy, that the Bible refers to coffee when he speaks of "roasted." Not to be outdone, the Italian Pietro de la Valle in the late seventeenth century, tells Homer when he discovers that Helen calmed her torment with "Nepenthes", a mysterious concoction of Egyptian origin mixed with wine, and so effective that "The cry and anger and evil / sweet forgetful. "
Discovered in Ethiopia, coffee spread throughout the world tropics. It was in Arabia, precisely the Yemen, where it was introduced first, probably by the pilgrims. Although according to another legend, a saint named Baba Budant, Native Indian Mysore region, carried out, as a good believer, a pilgrimage to Mecca. At that time, Arabs jealously guarded monopoly of the cultivation of coffee, but the Indian, anxious to get that beautiful bush country, seven grain hid in his clothes and took her home carrying the precious grains. This was, he says, as carried out the first major step of distributing this product throughout the world. In reality, we know who were the Dutch sailors who introduced coffee, first in Ceylon and later in India. Vanier although diffusion is not merely due to travelers and sailors, but also to the botanical gardens, often forgotten. The Jardin des Pamplemousses
, one of the finest achievements of France in its former overseas territories. Built by the Marquis de La Bourdonnais in 1735 on the Isle of France, which later became Mauiricio-Island, the garden owes its wealth to a mayor who was also a remarkable naturalist Pierre Poivre.
Poivre, whose last name means pepper, a passion for growing the spice, which is engaged the Dutch in their possessions. Introduced in the Isle of France and other French terriotiros pepper, cinnamon and nutmeg. Poivre enlarged the garden created by The Bourdonnais, with their own money purchasing the Jardin du Montplaisir and gathered together and formed the Jardin des Pamplemousses, which even today can be detected in the heart of Mauritius and later would host plants coffee issued by the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
The famous French botanist Antoine de Jussieu, By the early eighteenth, was entrusted with the precious coffee, garden gift Botanical Amsterdam. Thanks to Captain Gabriel De Clieu, au product was successfully from the conquest of America.
In 1657, Dutch sailors in Aden brought coffee plants were grown in the botanical garden in Amsterdam and then sent to Ceylon and Java. The cultivation of coffee so prospered in these places that a few years later, Saudi moved into second place in world production. For a long time, the Dutch Indies dictate the price of coffee in the world market. [Continue, for now èchense another cup of coffee]

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Café Café

men living in Abyssinian highlands, where it would place called the birthplace of coffee Arabica, found the means to use, perhaps in the form of pellets composed of coffee crushed in a mortar and animal fat. The origins of the coffee plant are from time immemorial, millions of years ago, but the discovery of its features is an episode of the legend.
myths reflect a need to explain things to explore the field of wonder, that elevates us above the humdrum of life, making it more complex. The history of coffee is no exception to this rule, because that prick are three legends about its origin.
first sets the legend the Angel Gabriel, whose person is recognized in both the Arabs and the Christians. Pity for the painful vigils Muhammad, offers the first cup of refreshing coffee drinks and retrieves the Prophet health and manly strength, becoming a vigorous young man, able to ride forty horses and many other girls, which was certainly a miracle.
The intervention of the goats is a constant in the following two legends which, according to the first, an Arab shepherd, named Kaldi, was driving a herd of goats across a high plateau covered in scrub in Ethiopia. One day, the goats found a coffee plants, chewed with the babble. At night, in instead of sleep at the usual time, they began to dance and frolic to the great astonishment of our pastor, he saw how they behaved well until dawn. Wondering what could be the reason for this strange behavior, the man walked around the area where the goats had grazed and found some bushes belonging to a species that had never before encountered. The pastor, with the uncertainty embedded in their consciousness, wanted to try the mysterious fruit of nature. The story does not specify how it tasted for the first time, says French expert Michel Vanier coffee. The effect was the same as in goats: the dream did not attend the meeting and the pastor was in dance the night away. He had discovered the coffee. By chance, a pious Muslim, Sufi Abul el-Shadhili, will meet with Kaldi, and make an ample supply of coffee beans and to make a ball that allowed him, like his colleagues, to extend the night prayer and meditation and not be won by sleep. The third legend
elements similar to the previous scene placed in goats belonging to a religious community called Chehodet Arabic. wild goats of the religious meager grazing pastures foothills. Gave your hair to the community, including the skin, which provided the monks sandals and scrolls intended to collect the verses of the Koran. At sunset, the goats slept peacefully, like any other day, then came a night when the mountains echoed with their bleating and there were, galloping down the slopes. Religious, according to legend, was first attributed to the fact that the night owl, commonly called nightjars, which was known to attack goats roamed the resting place for some monks watched them for many days and nights to be realized that the goats had discovered a new bush and eating it possible to manage this concern. [Continue, meanwhile Take a coffee]