Is coffee an important  part of your daily life?  The scientific name of the common coffee tree is Coffea arabica.  It, originally,  grew wild in Ethiopia.  According to legend, coffee was discovered when goat herders noticed that their flocks stayed awake all night after feeding on coffee leaves and berries.    Before its use as a beverage 700 years ago, coffee was a food, then a wine, and then a medicine.   

Coffee was introduced in America probably in the 1600’s.  It now grows under cultivation in Java, Sumatra, India, Arabia, equatorial Africa, Hawaii, Mexico, Central and South America and the West Indies.  The coffee berry begins to grow while the tree is blossoming and ripens from green to yellow to red.  A coffee tree is usually five years old before it bears a full crop.  A lot of people always express “that they have a headache if they don’t have their morning cup of coffee.”  In the past, the doctors stressed – no more than two cups a day.  Now they say it is good for you.  It is the same old story, anything in excess is not good for you.  The aroma of coffee when waking up is hard to beat.

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