The History of the Coffee
To bring a cup of smoking coffee to the lips is a common gesture in good part of the world, but few will be set questions on the origin of the drink, his/her history, his/her social meaning.
On his/her origins there are a lot of legends. All know that some goats that, in a Moslem convent of the Yemen, they started skipping about you go crazy after having browsed leaves and berries of a bush of mountain: the monks incuriositis did an infusion of it...
Less note the legend on Mohammed: it is narrated that one day when the Prophet felt him bad the archangel Gabriele came him in help, bringing him a potion directly sent him by Allah. The drink was dark as the Sacred Black Stone in the Mecca, commonly call "qawa." Mohammed drank her/it, you/he/she revived him of hit and he divided for great enterprises.
Another ancient legend told of a rising drink of ecstasy in degree to transport the spirit up to the celestial spheres.
The most known tale (told to the students by the monk maronita Anthony Fortunate Nairone, teacher of theology to the Sorbona in 1700) narrates, instead, that in Arabia a shepherd named Kaddi, having brought his/her goats to the pasture, it noticed bewildered that them, after having eaten the berries of a plant spontaneous ivi, they showed signs of excitement. The shepherd not succeeding to explain what happened, it submitted him/it to the venerable old man abbot Yahia. He, realizing those that were the ownerships of the plant, it did a bitter and rich drink of heat of it that, heating the body reinvigorated him/it freeing him/it from sleep and tiredness.
A similar legend wants, instead, that coffee has been open from an Iman of an Arabic monastery, which prepared a decotto of it and it made him/it taste to all the monks of the convent, that were awake without work the whole night. Another tale narrates of an Arabic monk, the sheikh Hauls well Omar, that he remained only during a trip toward Moka, city in which his/her teacher Schadeli accompanied, dead during the itinerary. Appeared him an angel, you/he/she was encouraged to continue toward that city, where it raged a terrible plague. Here, with his/her prayers to Allah, he/she succeeded in recovering many sick and even the daughter of the king, of which he fell in love. The King, however, the monk got further, which, forced to live in the loneliness of the mountain, to satisfy the hunger and the thirst, owed invoke the help of his/her teacher, which sent him a magnificent bird from the many colored feathers and from the persuasive song. Aroused and lifted by the melodious song, Omar drew near for admiring the bird and, comes on the place, he/she saw a tree dressed again by white flowers and you yield red: the coffee's plant. It gathered some berries and it served a decotto of it as the healthy virtues that, he/she often offered to the pilgrims that it received in his/her shelter.
Scattered him the news of the magic qualities of the drink, the monk it came riaccolto in the kingdom with great honors.
The coffee in the Napoleonic period.
A last legend tells that an immense fire was propagated in a vast territory of Abyssinia, covered by spontaneous plants of coffee making to spread to about ten kilometers of distance the aroma of that that a gigantic could be considered natural torrefazione.Further legends make to go up again the origins of the coffee to the plateaus of Abyssinia, where, it seems, is its true origins.
However is, the accounts of quite a lot travellers testify that the use of the coffee was diffused in the whole Islamic east at the end of the XVI century.
In West coffee spread through Venice, where, he/she is thought, the first one has been open "Shop of the Coffee" in 1640, even if some believe that has previously been one open of it to Livorno. In every case, success was immediate and the coffee, both as drink that as place, spread in every Italian city.
The coffee's diffusion in the world was facilitated by a struggle of affairs among who wanted to preserve the exclusive one some precious seedlings and who desired to get a part of the profits that they got.
In 1690 a command of Dutch sailors disembarked on the coasts of Moka, in the Yemen, and he/she succeeded in appropriating of some seedlings: after few years, the first plantations bloomed to Giava and Sumatra. Subsequently, coffee impetuously spread in the whole Central and Southern America where, especially in Brazil, they exist all the greatest plantations of the world today.
These ghosts - Fit II
Eduardo De Phillip
Easter (to the balcony while he/she is talking to Professor Santana): ..(...)..Who never
you/he/she could prepare me a coffee' as I prepare him/it for me me, with the same zeal
...with the same care?...You will understand that, must serve myself, I follow her
true experiences and I don't neglect anything. ........ On the beak. .......... you see him/it the
beak?...(...)...on the beak I put this coppitello of paper there... it Seems nothing,
this coppitello, but it has him his/her function... And already', because', the smoke
dense of the first coffee' that it flows, that then and' the more' load, doesn't disperse him.
As also, teacher, before straining the water, that needs to make to boil for
three or four minutes, perlomeno, before straining her/it, I told you in the part
inside of the riddled capsule, it needs to sprinkle half teaspoon of
dust just ground. A small secret! So that to the moment
of the casting the water in full to boil, is already spicy for his/her account.
Teacher you sometimes have a good time also, because', I often see you
out in your balcony to make the same function. ..(...)..as my wife
doesn't it collaborate, do I toast him/it to me from me... Also you teacher?.. And you do well...
Because', that, then, and' the more thing' difficult: to guess the correct point of
cooking, the color.... To mantle of monk.... Color monk's mantle. And' one
great satisfaction, and I also avoid to become angry, because' if for one
damned combination, for a wrong movement, you know, it escapes you of
hand the piece than above, it unites him to that of under, and he mixes silver ware and
coffee'... In short a schifezza comes... Since I have done him with my hands and
I cannot pick her/it to me with anybody up, I become convinced me that and' good and me him
I drink the same. .... Teacher and' past. (it pours the content in the cup)
Here here! Caspita, that coffee!' And' chocolate! You see how much few it take for
a man to make happy: a cup of coffee', taken here quietly
out.... with a nice dirimpettaio.... you are nice, teacher....
you see, half cup I preserve her/it to me, I drink her/it to me among a cigarette and
the other (it lights up a cigarette) ...........(...)....
