National Coffee Day
A beverage, black as ink, useful against numerous illnesses, particularly those of the stomach. Enjoy some "medicine" on #NationalCoffeeDay
Every year on 29 September people worldwide celebrate their most beloved morning beverage on National Coffee Day.
Even though it is a morning favourite, this beverage is also enjoyed throughout the day. Some people enjoy it hot, others like it cold and it is either taken black or with a variety of additives, including cream, creamers, milk, sugar, flavoured syrups and many others.
There are many accounts of how coffee first came to be. The earliest, credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee plant, dates back to the 15th century. The SIFU monasteries around Mokha in Yemen first roasted and brewed coffee beans, similar to the way it is prepared today. Yemeni traders brought coffee from Ethiopia back to their homeland and began cultivating the seed.
In 1670 Baba Budan smuggled coffee seeds from the Middle East by strapping seven seeds to his chest. The first plants from these smuggled seeds were cultivated in Mysore. Later it was also grown in Italy, the rest of Europe, Indonesia and the Americas.
In 1853 Leonhard Rauwolf, a German physician, returned from a 10-year trip to the Near East and described coffee as, “A beverage as black as ink, useful against numerous illnesses, particularly those of the stomach. Its consumers take it in the morning, quite frankly, in a porcelain cup that is passed around and from which each one drinks a cupful.
It is composed of water and the fruit from a bush called bunnu.”
To celebrate today, enjoy a cup (or two, or three!) of your favourite coffee. Get together with your friends, go to a coffee shop and catch up. Some coffee shops will have National Coffee Day specials, so take them up on the offer.
Use #NationalCoffeeDay to post on social media.
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