Ep 54 Wake Up and Smell the Caffeine
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The Origins of Coffee
The first references to tea come from about 900 CE in writings by Arab traders, but no one in Europe or the New World really knew that much about tea until the mid-1500s. There is some evidence that in Ethiopia, coffee beans were first consumed by people as small balls consisting of like the ground fruit and then the bean itself. It doesn't seem that coffee was used by or even known to anyone in any of like the ancient worlds, like ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient Middle East or ancient Africa.
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