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1) A Five Gun Salute to the Origins of Coffee

A History of Coffee

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The History of Coffee in Ethiopia

Coffee was growing in Ethiopia wild for thousands of years. When people grow and pick the coffee, they will often make some kind of sacrifice to the coffee or something to acknowledge the forest spirits that look after the coffee. So there's a story about kaffa that really brings this home. In 1890, the burial of the last independent king of kaffa is described as "the burying of coffees" And that sort of somehow sums up the centrality of coffee in kaffa.

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