Today is October 1st International Coffee Day #InternationalCoffeeDay let me tell you being a new month I really have a lot to do if I plan on being ready for the upcoming #Holidays. Having a cup of #Coffee this morning would have been a Godsend but there isn’t any Coffee in our home.
I could have walked to Walmart or sent the boys to get Coffee for us and they we could have celebrated International Coffee Day but again I decided to pick my battles. I let them sleep so I could work. If you are out and about would you pick up a cup of Coffee for me Please.
International Coffee Day takes place on October 1st every year making the daily journey from tropical Africa to the breakfast mugs of households all over the world, Coffee Beans have been scattered all over the world for more than 600 years, and their preparation for consuming is a great example of metamorphosis.
Humanity has been preparing Coffee for many presentations: including drinks, Candies, medicine, and some ancient civilizations even used Coffee as currency! No matter how you take Coffee, Coffee can energize you, warm you up, refresh you, keep you awake, and even catch you up with your loved ones.
According to historical records, Coffee is originally from Ethiopia, and its discovery in Africa comes with an interesting story. Around the 700s AD, a herd of Goats started acting strangely, almost as if they were dancing. Their owner, Kaldi, discovered that they were eating a sort of red Bean and concluded that was the cause of their behavior.
Kaldi decided to share his findings with a Monk who required something that could help him to stay awake all night as he Prayed; but another story claims that the Monk refused and threw the Beans into the fire and the pleasing aroma that came from it was just wonderful.
Suddenly, Coffee made its way through the North into Yemen in the 15 Century where the Coffee Beans arrived by the name “Mocha.” Shortly after, Coffee Beans became well known in Egypt, Persia, and Turkey as “Wine of Araby” and Coffee houses started to open by the name of “Schools of the Wise.”
Next, Arabia became the gatekeeper for Coffee, and these Beans began a large-scale Coffee farming in Southern India. In 1560 Coffee made its way through Europe and quickly became popular, until Pope Clement VIII decided that the drink must be satanic.
Under inspection, Pope Clement VIII gave into the glory of the beverage by baptism and declared Coffee a Christian drink. As the 1600s rolled on and Coffee Houses sprung up all over Europe, the Beans followed the wave of Colonization and found themselves in America.
Finally, after a long time among humanity in 2014, The “International Coffee Organization” declared October 1st, as International Coffee Day, an occasion to celebrate Coffee as a beverage and raise awareness for the plight of the Coffee growers.
International Coffee Day Activities
- Coffee has been part of Human Civilizations since ancient times, so international Coffee Day is the perfect day to get to know more about Coffee culture! Read facts about Coffee and watch documentaries about Coffee and you might be surprised to get to know how important Coffee has become to humanity.
- Did you know there are tons of traditions and rituals that ancient civilizations used to do with Coffee? Including using Coffee as a beauty treatment, or as an insect Repeller, as compost or fertilize, Coffee can be used to spice your Steaks and flavor your food, and much more.
- The Coffee industry is huge and thanks to our love for Coffee, there are many different ways to prepare Coffee. Turn yourself into a Barista and learn how to make that complicated drink that you usually go out to order.
FACTS ABOUT COFFEE
- According to a “Harvard’s Health Publishing” study, Coffee drinkers tend to live longer, plus they have a reduced risk of Cardiovascular disease. I didn’t know this. Did you?
- Coffee is the second largest traded commodity right after Crude Oil, and the most consumed beverage, after Water.
- Even Beethoven was a Coffee lover and it is well known that Beethoven used to count his Coffee Beans before making the brew, mostly 60 per cup. I wouldn’t want to do that every day. Would you?
- Coffee Beans are called “Beans” just because of the resemblance, but they’re actually Berries.
- For medicine and psychology, caffeine is a central-nervous-system stimulant, and that is because it has a similar molecular structure to the “adenosine”, which allows it to bind to “adenosine receptors” on the brain.
Why People Love International Coffee Day
- Coffee has been with humanity since ancient times, and every society has a culture that goes from cultivating Coffee to preparing Coffee, so look out for yours and celebrate.
- One of the main objects of International Coffee Day is to create awareness about the process that implicates Coffee’s production and to promote healthy and safe methods and procedures, not only for humans but also for the planet.
- Caffeine is a stimulant that increases activity in the central nervous system and it can increase energy levels and alertness, plus Caffeine improves mental performance.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
