Until the nineteenth century was not sure which was the place where the coffee plant originated, as well as Ethiopia and East African regions hypothesized to Persia and Yemen.
 

There are many legends about the origin of coffee, the most popular says that a shepherd named Kaldi brought to graze goats in Ethiopia and one day these, encountering a coffee plant, began to eat berries and leaves to chew.
Came the night instead of sleeping goats began to wander with energy and liveliness never expressed until then. Seeing this, the pastor and he gave the reason roast plant seeds eaten by his flock, milled them and, having made ​​an infusion, got coffee.

 

In the fifteenth century this drink began to spread in the Middle East before (Damascus, Cairo and Instambul was consumed regularly in the meeting places) and later in Europe and the Americas.
 

The first Europeans to describe the coffee plant was the German botanist Leonard Rauwolf, in a book published in 1583 and the Italian Alpini Prospero, in his book De Medicina Aegyptiorum 1591.
Prospero Alpini, however, does not speak of the berries of the coffee plant, described later by Charles de L'Ecluse, in 1605.
 

Venice, its commercial relations in the East was the first city to make use of coffee in Italy, probably since the beginning of the sixteenth century. The first coffee shops were born in 1645, however, only in the seventeenth century, London and Paris in a pound of coffee cost up to 40 shields.
 

Towards the middle of the seventeenth century coffee began to be imported and consumed in England and were then opened the first coffee (coffeehouse). In 1663 in England the coffeehouse were eighty and increased rapidly until you get to about 3000 in 1715.
 

The coffee soon became places where they were born and spreading liberal ideas, were frequented by writers, politicians and philosophers and spread across the rest of Europe.

 

In 1689 it opened the first coffee in the United States, in Boston. In 1696 it was opened one in New York, The King's Arms.
 

By 1700 every European city had at least one coffee.
In Holland, the East India Company began to cultivate coffee at the end of the seventeenth century, in Java using seeds from Yemen.
 

In 1706 some coffee seedlings were transferred from Java to the botanical garden of Amsterdam, and from there, in 1713, a map arrived in France.
 

In 1720 an officer of the French navy, sailed to the Caribbean with some seedling of coffee. In the following years the coffee plants spread rapidly throughout Central America: Haiti, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Cuba and Puerto Rico. In the same period the Dutch carried the coffee in another colony, and from there entered the Guiana French and then in Brazil, where, in 1727, were created the first coffee plantations.

 

Today, the world's largest producers of coffee are, in order, Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia and Indonesia. Follow, with variable order depending on the vintage, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Ethiopia and India.