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UTC+3 (Yemen Standard Time) Mokha (Arabic: المُخا, romanized: al-Mukhā), also spelled Mocha, or Mukha, [1] is a port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. Until Aden and al Hudaydah eclipsed it in the 19th century, Mokha was the principal port for Yemen's capital, Sanaa. Long known for its coffee trade, the city gave its name to Mocha coffee.
Mocha coffee bean. The Mocha coffee bean is a variety of coffee bean originally from Yemen. It is harvested from the coffee-plant species Coffea arabica, which is native to Yemen. Mocha coffee beans are very small, hard, have an irregular round shape, and are olive green to pale yellow in color. [1]
The Coffee Bearer by John Frederick Lewis (1857) Kaffa kalid coffeepot, by French silversmith François-Thomas Germain, 1757, silver with ebony handle, Metropolitan Museum of Art. The history of coffee dates back centuries in Ethiopia and Yemen. It was already known in Mecca in the 15th century.
The earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century in the accounts of Ahmed al-Ghaffar in Yemen, [3] where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed in a similar way to how it is prepared now. Coffee was used by Sufi circles to stay awake for their religious rituals. [13]
Caffè mocha. A caffè mocha (/ ˈmɒkə / MOK-ə or / ˈmoʊkə / MOH-kə), also called mocaccino (Italian: [mokatˈtʃiːno]), is a chocolate -flavoured warm beverage that is a variant of a caffè latte, [1] commonly served in a glass rather than a mug. Other commonly used spellings are mochaccino[2] and also mochachino.
Khawlani Coffee Beans (Arabic: البن الخولاني) are a type of coffee bean cultivated in the region of the Khawlan mountains (Sarat Khawlan). These mountains spread from the southwestern part of Saudi Arabia to the northwestern part of Yemen. The province of Jazan in Saudi Arabia, and the governorate of Saada in Yemen are where these ...
Arabic coffee originated in the Middle East, beginning in Yemen [3] and eventually travelling to Mecca , Egypt, the Levant, and then, in the mid-16th century, to Turkey and from there to Europe [4] where coffee eventually became popular as well. [5] Arabic coffee is an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Arab states confirmed by UNESCO. [6]
The Birth of Coffee is a transmedia project which includes a book of words and images, a photographic exhibit, and a website. It focuses on the people worldwide who grow and produce coffee. The project illustrates how coffee – combined with the volatile locations where it grows and labor-intensive growing processes [1] – often shapes those ...