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People across the globe drink a whopping 400 billion coffees every year – and each cup contains many centuries of history.Find out more about Coffee, by listening to The Curious History of Your Home on BBC Sounds!One morning sometime in the ninth century, in the region of Kapha in Ethiopia, he noticed that some red berries were having an unusual effect on his goats. Instead of lounging around in the sun, they were prancing about energetically.
Having come across coffee while travelling from Ethiopia, the religious leader Muhammad Ibn Said Al Dhabhani popularised coffee in Yemen. Before long coffee had spread across Persia, Egypt, Syria and Turkey.In 1600, the Holy Father is said to have tried a cup – and he rather liked it, despite rumours that it was a satanic drink. He gave it the Catholic Church's blessing, and within a century coffee was popular across Europe.
The owner was Pasqua Rosée. He’d been employed as a servant by an English merchant called Daniel Edwards in Turkey, where one of his jobs was to make the morning coffee. So many of Edward's friends wanted to try the drink that Rosée set up his own shop. After a decade, 83 more coffee houses had opened in the city.Coffee houses became a hub for intellectuals to meet, drink, listen and debate.
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