1. Introduction:
Coffee is one of the most favourite beverages all around the world.
This assignment will be all about the history, culture, religion and symbol of coffee, in addition there will be some changes in how people produce and enjoy coffee from the past to now.
2. Body of the assignment:
A) The History of Coffee
Coffee is not just something new, every method/ from harvesting to brewing have been hereditary since hundreds year ago (Lahore, A 2013).
Ethiopia, where is believed to be a cradle of mankind, is the birthplace of coffee (Pendergreast, M 1999).
There are a lot of myths and legends about how coffee have been discovered.
From Ethiopia, coffee travel to Arabia.
From Arab and the Islamic world, coffee continue to speared to Europe by Venetian merchants and then the whole world have known about this beverage.(Latorre, A 2013)
B) The Culture, Religion and Symbol of Coffee all around the world.
The discovery of coffee came from Ethiopian and Arab legends about the dancing goats (Pendergreast, M 1999).
Coffee come from Arab truncation which mean ‘Wine of the bean’. (Latorre, A 2013)
At first in European coffee have been considered by Christian as an ‘unholy’ brew ( Rolnick, H 1982)
In different countries coffee have been used in different purposes.
Arab was the first country where coffee have been used as medicine and pleasurable stimulant (Ellis, H 2002).In Japan people coffee have been used as a good medicine that contains elements beneficial for healthy skin (Banks, M et al. 2002).
After the first appear in Europe, coffee become very popular, the needed in some places where open for the purpose of serving-> café or coffeehouse have been opened (Boé, P 2001).
Then coffee appear in Literature and people talk about how coffee relation to the Fine Art ( Ukers, WH 2007)
In 1971 Starbucks ,the famous café band, have been established in America by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker and then become a band