History of Coffee and Consumption Statistics
At the first place boiled coffee leaves where used as a medicine in Ethiopia. Probably accidently it was roasted and then got the today’s form of drinking. For a long time it stayed where it was and then transported to Yemen, where the first coffee plantation got started. On fifteenth century it was spread through Sufis to Mecca and as far as Cairo where it got popular in Muslim world. Sufi’s used coffee for religious practices an even in A Thousand and One Night it was called as “Arabic The happy”.
“Coffee made its European debut in the mid-seventeenth century, where it was taken up in fashionable circles as part oof the craze for all things Turkish.” (Alain Stella, Coffee, 2001, Flammarion)
After that coffee arrived to Europe it was cultivated in Asia by European colonies. It got accessible to people by time. It was transported to the ports of Yemen by camels and transported to Cairo. Then to Alexandria, to Istanbul and to India. As it got more popular the cultivation areas got wider, the area between tropics of Capricorn and Cancer were under control of European Coffee Companies. The major points for exportations were Marseilles and Amsterdam.
Coffee consumption statistics(2002)
#1 Norway 10.7kgs
#2 Finland 10.1kgs
#3 Denmark 9.7kgs
#4 Sweden 7.8kgs
#5 Netherlands 7.1kgs
#11 Italy 3.2kgs
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/foo_cof_con-food-coffee-consumption
