Coffee Ethiopia’s gift to the world

By: Cicely K. Leblanc

The story of coffee has its early period in Ethiopia, the original home of the coffee plant, coffee arabica, which still grows wild in the forest of the highlands. Though nobody is sure accurately how coffee was originally discovered as a beverage, it is believed that its cultivation and use started as early as the 9th century. Some authorities state that it was cultivated in the Yemen previously, around AD 575. The only thing that looks like certain is that it originated in Ethiopia, from where it traveled to the Yemen about six hundred years ago, and from Arabia it began its journey around the world.

Among the many traditions that have developed concerning the origin of coffee, one of the most accepted version is that of Kaldi, an Abyssinian goatherd, who was reported to have seen the goats eating berries and then having a lot more energy, and then he tried some of the berries and the same thing happened to him, his energy levels went sky high. The berries were free growing in the high lands of Ethiopia & hence we then had one of the first coffees. The visiting Arabians took some of the plants home to see if they could grow them and then we had the renowned Arabica coffee beans.

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