2 Old Legendary Accounts According to a legend, today's Oromo people's ancestors in a region of Kaffa in Ethiopia were the first to recognize the energizing effect of the coffee plant. The story of Kaldi , the 9th-century Ethiopian goatherd who discovered coffee when he noticed how excited his goats became after eating the beans from a coffee plant, did not appear in writing until 1671 and is probably apocryphal. Historical Transmission The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century in the accounts of Yamen. It was here in Arabia that the coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed, in the similar way to how it is prepared now. By the 16th century, coffee had reached the rest of the Middle East, Persia, Turkey and northern Africa. Coffee had spread to Italy by 1600 and then to the rest of Europe, Indonesia and America. Through the efforts of the British East India Colony, coffee bec...
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