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A mocaccino mocha in New Zealand. A variant is white caffè mocha, made with white chocolate instead of milk or dark. [10] There are also variants of the drink that mix the two syrups; this mixture is referred to by several names, including black-and-white mocha, marble mocha, tan mocha, tuxedo mocha, and zebra mocha.
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.
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Named after the Yemeni city of Mocha, it was invented by Italian engineer Luigi Di Ponti in 1933 [3] [4] [5] who sold the patent to Alfonso Bialetti, an aluminum vendor. It quickly became one of the staples of Italian culture. Bialetti Industries continues to produce the original model under the trade name "Moka Express".
The exact location has been debated, either being present-day Mocha itself, the coastal village of Maushij [8] or the inland settlement Mauza'. [9] [10] Prior to the arrival of the Ottomans in Yemen, in 1538, Mocha was a small fishing village. The Ottomans developed Mocha as a port city, being the first port north of the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb ...
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Pieter van den Broecke, a Dutch merchant, obtained some of the closely guarded coffee bushes from Mocha, Yemen, in 1616. He took them back to Amsterdam and found a home for them in the Botanical gardens, where they began to thrive. This apparently minor event received little publicity but was to have a major impact on the history of coffee.
However, this story may be apocryphal since the first written account of it was in 1930, some 15 years later. Another explanation is that a formerly popular nickname for coffee, jamoke, from mocha java, was shortened to Joe. A third origin story is that since coffee is such a commonly consumed beverage, it is the drink of the average Joe.