It was immediately banned in a lot of places for a long long time, believed to be a creation of demons.īut others too believed that the magic beans give humans - special powers. That it was first brewed in Abyssinia around the 9th century by a shepherd ( that must be Kaldi).īut as Kaldi presented his discovery to local monasteries, the berries were marked as 'work of the devil'. Legend has it that the very first coffee beans can be traced back to the region surrounding the southern Red Sea, an area that is now considered modern-day Ethiopia and Yemen. Thus, as they say, coffee was discovered. So he too decided to try it out and much to his surprise discovered a feeling of energy surge. Kaldi noticed that his sheep were chewing on some berries which made them super energetic. The sheep run and jump around, some dancing, and he didn't know what caused this. Kaldi, an Abysinian (now Ethiopia) shepherd was raising cattle when he noticed that some of his sheep started to behave oddly. Let me tell you an ancient tale about coffee, way back in 700 AD. It is worth 200 billion dollars as an industry.īut despite it being such an integral part of daily life across the world, most people know very little about where coffee came from, and how it became the cultural phenomenon that it is today.Īs it turns out, we have the Arab world to thank coffee for. It is the second-most traded commodity globally on earth, standing only after petroleum. A drink so popular that over 2.2 billion people drink it each morning. And the Middle East tops them all.Ĭoffee. Whether with milk and sugar, black, whether brewed or espresso, from a large pot or in a tiny cup: coffee has fans all over the world. “Take A Break" could not be more simply and internationally understandably illustrated than with a cup of coffee.