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First patent (16 May 1884) of the espresso coffee machine. Moriondo presented his invention at the General Expo of Turin in 1884, where it was awarded the bronze medal.The patent was awarded for a period of six years on 16 May 1884 under the title of "New steam machinery for the economic and instantaneous confection of coffee beverage, method ‘A. Moriondo’."
Studies of genetic diversity have been performed on Coffea arabica varieties, which were found to be of low diversity but with retention of some residual heterozygosity from ancestral materials, and closely related diploid species Coffea canephora and C. liberica; [8] however, no direct evidence has ever been found indicating where in Africa coffee grew or who among the local people might have ...
Gustav III of Sweden (1746–1792) was determined to prove the negative health effects of coffee.. Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment was a purported twin study ordered by the king to study the health effects of coffee.
A coffee bearer, from the Ottoman quarters in Cairo (1857). The earliest-grown coffee can be traced from Ethiopia. [6] Evidence of knowledge of the coffee tree and coffee drinking first appeared in the late 15th century; the Sufi shaykh Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-Dhabhani, the Mufti of Aden, is known to have imported goods from Ethiopia to Yemen. [7]
The story is probably apocryphal, as it was first related by Antoine Faustus Nairon, a Maronite Roman professor of Oriental languages and author of one of the first printed treatises devoted to coffee, De Saluberrima potione Cahue seu Cafe nuncupata Discurscus (Rome, 1671).
Rumah Loer, a contemporary-style coffee shop (Indonesian: rumah kopi kekinian) in Palembang, Indonesia. In Malaysia and Singapore, traditional breakfast and coffee shops are called kopi tiam. The word is a portmanteau of the Malay word for coffee (as borrowed and altered from English) and the Hokkien dialect word for shop (εΊ—; POJ: tiàm).
Much of the popularization of coffee is due to its cultivation in the Arab world, beginning in what is now Yemen, by Sufi monks in the 15th century. [2] Through thousands of Muslims pilgrimaging to Mecca, the enjoyment and harvesting of coffee, or the "wine of Araby" spread to other countries (e.g. Turkey, Egypt, Syria) and eventually to a majority of the world through the 16th century.
Kopi may refer to: An alternative name for the karaka tree; Kopi, a clay mourning cap worn by some Aboriginal Australian peoples; Kopi (drink), a coffee beverage with Hainanese cultural roots popular in Maritime Southeast Asia Kopi tiam, a coffee shop or restaurant in Southeast Asia that serves kopi as a menu item; Coffee in Indonesia