The first country to grow coffee trees was Yemen, in the year 575. At that time, the beans were consumed raw. To preserve them, they were kept in pots with animal fat.
It was in the year 1000 that coffee infusion was discovered, becoming a beverage. Thus, it was consumed for medicinal purposes. The drink as we know it today was recorded in the year 1480.
The first coffee shop in the world was opened in Constantinople in 1495 and was called Kiva Han.
The governor of Mecca, Khair Beg, was sentenced to death because he tried to ban the consumption of coffee.
Until the 17th century, only the Arabs produced coffee. Germans, Italians, French and Italians tried to produce the grain in various ways. The Dutch were the first to get seedlings from the plant. These plants are kept in the Botanical Garden in Amsterdam to this day.
The first coffee plantation in Brazil took place in 1727 in the State of Pará from a seedling brought from French Guiana by Francisco de Melo Palheta. It is said that he went to Guyana to arbitrate a border dispute, he would have seduced the governor's wife, who presented him with seedlings and coffee seeds.
The difference between Arabica and Robusta varieties is in the DNA. Arabica coffees have 44 chromosomes and robust coffees have 22 chromosomes.
Brazil became the largest coffee exporter in 1860, when it produced 26 million bags.
The first known 'King of Coffee' in the world was French and he was the father of none other than Santos Dumont. All the experiments that Santos Dumont did with 14Bis were paid for by selling the coffee.
The largest coffee producers in the world are: Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia and Mexico. Coffees are also produced in Hawaii, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Jamaica, Ethiopia (where coffee trees are native vegetation), Kenya, Yemen and Indonesia.
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