Tips on Coffee - Coffee Producing Countries (#)

„Mexico is the largest source of U.S. coffee imports.Notable Beans: Altura, Liquidambar MS, Pluma Coixtepec Ethiopia (3.8 million bags) The natural home of the arabica tree and the setting for most of coffee’s origin legends, Ethiopia is Africa’s top arabica exporter and leads the continent in domestic consumption. About 12 million Ethiopians make their living from coffee, whose name is said to be a derivation of “Kaffa,” the name of an Ethiopian province. Notable Beans: Harrar, Sidamo, Yirgacheffe India (3.8 million bags) According to legend, India is the birthplace of coffee cultivation east of Arabia. Today coffee production is under the strict control of the Indian Coffee Board, which some say reduces economic incentive and thereby lowers quality.“

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CoffeeGeek - Regional: United States West, Kaffa! Review - in the city of Orange (Orange County) (#)

„Justin Wong, President of Kaffa!, has developed an innovative menu combining distinctive drip coffees and traditional espresso beverages, with creative hot and frozen house specialties. Kaffa!’s baristas elevate milk based espresso drinks to an art form by pouring designs, like “hearts” and “rosetta latte”, with the velvety milk foam into the espresso. In addition to a wide variety of coffee and non-coffee beverages, Kaffa! features gourmet paninis (Italian styled grilled sandwiches), fresh morning pastries from bakery, and exquisite desserts, some of which were manufactured in Milan, Italy.“

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BBC - h2g2 - Microbes - the Harm They Do (#)

„Half of Athens was razed by plague in 430 BC2 . The bubonic plague that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages - and had previously swept across India and China - was brought to Egypt by merchants fleeing the warring Crimea, where the Tartar army had been hurling the corpses of plague victims over the walls of Kaffa. New diseases such as ebola and AIDS have claimed just as many lives since their discovery. Old diseases such as tuberculosis, once thought to be controlled, are again on the rise, not only in 'third world' countries, but also in developed nations.Humans are not the only creatures susceptible to disease.“

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BBC - History - Black Death: The Disease (#)

„The first known victims of plague were probably a community of Nestorian Christians at Issyk Kul, south of Lake Balkash, whose cemetery explicitly records three plague victims in 1338-9, a year in which there were unusually heavy mortalities. In 1343, it had reached the Black Sea port of Kaffa (Theodosia) in the Crimea. There, a Genoese colony was under siege from a khan of the Golden Horde named Yannibeg, when his army was decimated by an outbreak of plague. Determined to make his enemies suffer the torments of his men, he ordered that bodies of plague victims be catapulted into the city.“

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Coffee From Around The World - National Coffee Association (#)

„Coffee legend tells of the discovery of the first coffee trees in Ethiopia. Indeed, it is not hard to believe that coffee originated in a land where wild coffee tree forests are still the primary source of harvested coffee.  Generally wet processed, coffee from Ethiopia comes from one of three main growing regions -- Sidamo, Harer or Kaffa -- and often bears one of those names. In the cup, an Ethiopian coffee tends to offer a remarkable and bold statement.  It is full flavored, a bit down-to-earth and full bodied.“

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Mostly Italian Coffee (#)

„Sjehab-eddin, a mufti (muhammedan priest) during a trip to Abessinia (now Ethiopia) in the middle of 1400 century, learned to know about the brew which made the need to sleep disappear. The brew had been used and been grown for ages in Abessinia and beyond in the land of Kaffa. Sjehab-Eddin saw that it was good and decided to take bushes back to his hometown Aden in the land known now as Yemen. He especially felt that the dervesch (muhammedan monks), could use the brew to easier manage their nightly meditations.“

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International Coffee Organization (#)

„The story of how coffee growing and drinking spread around the world is one of the greatest and most romantic in history. It starts in the Horn of Africa, in Ethiopia, where the coffee tree probably originated in the province of Kaffa. There are various fanciful but unlikely stories surrounding the discovery of the properties of roasted coffee beans. One story has it that an Ethiopian goatherd was amazed at the lively behaviour of his goats after chewing red coffee berries.“

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Indian coffee board- Coffee : From Mocha to Mysore : A Coffee Journey (#)

„Coffee: Arab, Kahwa, a word which appears to have been originally a term for wine... the derivation of the word has been plausibly traced to Kaffa, one of those districts of the South Abyssinian highlands which appear to have been the original habitat of the coffee plant. It is said to have been introduced into South India some two centuries ago by a Mahommedan pilgrim, named Baba Budan, who brought a few seeds with him from Mecca: see Rice, Mysore. - From HobsonJobson first published in 1886.“

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Amazon.com: Books: The Birth of Coffee (#)

„I ended up reading it from cover to cover. The text guides us through a brief overview of the history and oddly familiar geography of coffee (Kaffa, Al Mokha, Java). But the photographs of the people who grow, pick, and process coffee around the world are what make this book distinctive. "Their faces will always be reflected on the dark surface of every cup of coffee we drink." Indeed.“

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The Coffees of Ethiopia (#)

„Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee: it is in the forests of the Kaffa region that coffee arabica grew wild. Coffee is "Bun" or "Buni" in Ethiopia, so Coffee Bean is quite possibly a poor anglicized interpretation of "Kaffa Bun". Coffea Arabica was also found in the Harar region,“

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Coffee: Lifeblood of Navy (#)

„According to one version, back in 875 A.D. the sheep and goat herders in the Abyssinian province of Kaffa (where coffee got its name) were having a rough time of it because their sheep and goats stayed up all night wandering restlessly around. This kept the herders awake all nigh too. Finally someone discovered the coffee bushes the animals grazed on were responsible.“

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Tips on Coffee - The history of coffee (#)

„Probably originated in the Ethiopian province of Kaffa, though there is controversy about its origins. The crop first became popular in Arabia around the 13th century, its popularity probably enhanced by Islam's prohibition against alcoholic beverages. Before 1600, coffee production was a jealously guarded secret, and fertile beans were not found outside Arabia.“

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Amazon.com: Music: Living in America (#)

„I love everything about the Goons. As a native of DC, and a Kaffa House kid, i've gotta give mad props to this band for coming out so hard with their release. This album says it all. "I HATE MY JOB, I DO IT EVERY DAY."--This text refers to the Audio CD edition“

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CoffeeGeek - Regional: United States Central, Coffee in Texas (#)

„I have done in a little research in the Dallas area.  There is a coffee roaster in the Meadow Central shopping center called Kaffa Roasting. They have a Probat in the shop. They will sell you fresh roasted beans or green beans for home.“

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Amazon.com: Books: Master Snickup's Cloak (#)

„Having found his release, Snickup dies. Noticing their host has died, the vermin take flight...including a small flea, which heads for the trading port of Kaffa. We are told the year now is 1346.“

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Tea & Coffee 02/01 - Ethiopian Coffee Industry (cont.) (#)

„Recently, Midroc decided to get into the coffee business, so it launched the Gemadro Coffee Plantation Project on a 2,300-hectare tract of land in the Kaffa-Shaka Zone of southern Ethiopia.“

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The First Cup of Coffee (#)

„Around three-thousand years ago a group of nomadic people, the Oromos, lived in the Kingdom of Kaffa (today's Ethiopia). The Oromos tribe had an ongoing feud with the Bonga tribe.“

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BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Ethiopia fact file (#)

„The shepherd noticed them eating berries from the trees and becoming very frisky. The word "coffee" is thought to have derived from the coffee-growing region of "Kaffa".“

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BBC - Science & Nature - Hot Topics - Biochemical Weapons - Key Points (#)

„Tartars dump plague-infested bodies over the city walls of Kaffa; fleeing inhabitants spread the Black Death to Europe“

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Listmania! Desert Fathers and the Monastic Vocation (#)

„The Kaffa Lives of the Desert Fathers. A Study in Armenian Manuscript Illumination “

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