In 1540, Ozdemir Pasha, the Turkish ruler of Yemen, enquired about the hot fluid made by the natives from the legumes of a plant. Coffee was initially introduced to a Turkish sultan by him. To what extent, however, did it resemble modern Turkish coffee? Most likely not. But the scent, if not taste, was intriguing enough for the master to give orders to his employees to experiment. A mysterious worker found that roasting and grinding coffee beans finely enhanced the taste. Even today, Turkish coffee is not prepared by filtering the grounds.
As much as the coffee itself, the process of serving it has evolved into an art form. Around the year 1555, Pasha decided that the coffee had reached a point of sufficient perfection that he could have his slaves bring it to Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. It was a gamble, but the Sultan loved the taste and smell of the new drink, which was brewed with the beans of an invasive species that flourished in the territories under his rule. The modern kind of Turkish coffee may be traced back to his orders to put more time and energy into refining the bean processing. Surprisingly, the Ottoman aristocracy didn’t see any cause to ban coffee for the common people. One subsequent Sultan did ban coffeehouses after learning that plots to overthrow him were discussed openly among the men who congregated there to sip coffee.
Coffee shops sprouted up across the entire Ottoman Empire, giving people a new excuse to get together, and the elite began drinking their coffee in intimate settings while trying to make it look fancy by using china, gold, and silver cups and placing them in elaborately carved wooden holders with matching saucers. The ruling classes of other nations picked up the practice in their own royal courts. When sugar was introduced to coffee, formerly skeptic drinkers were converted into ardent fans.
throughout 1615, a Venetian trader introduced coffee to the general public throughout Europe. The Ottomans threatened to shut off the supply or coffee beans or significantly increase the selling price of the beans, prompting European nations to hurry to buy and develop their own coffee plants. It wasn’t just one East India Company that was on the prowl for coffee bean plants; they were all in on it. An interesting finding by one of the firms was that the crops would thrive in most locations on Earth if planted at the same latitude as they do in Yemen. Google Search Verse 6 of Proverbs. Only this one passage in the Christian Bible (which was not discovered until after Jesus’ mission, sacrifice, and resurrection) seems to endorse coffee.
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