Tag: yemen

• Yemen and the Port of Mocha

  The story of the world's first commercial coffee — Yemen's terraced mountain farms, the Sufi mystics who first brewed qahwa, the port of Mocha that named a drink, and the wild, wine-like cup that still comes from coffee's oldest terroir.

• The Origins of Coffee

  How coffee began — the Ethiopian forests where Arabica evolved, the legend of Kaldi and his dancing goats, the Yemeni Sufis who turned a wild berry into qahwa, and the drink's improbable journey from mystic ritual to global habit.

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