http://therealbean.co.uk/regions/coffee-of-the-world-the-americas/ A Blog About Coffee Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:12:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://therealbean.co.uk/regions/coffee-of-the-world-the-americas/comment-page-1/#comment-9 How your coffee bean makes it to your cup | The Real Bean Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:18:55 +0000 http://therealbean.co.uk/?p=60#comment-9 [...] Coffee comes from a plant called “Coffea”, of which there are several varieties. The most common (and generally most popular) type is “Coffea arabica”, which comes from Ethiopia and Yeman and is believed to have been the first species of coffee plant ever to be cultivated. It’s thought that the very first coffee drinkers lived somewhere around the ninth century, having discovered the plant in Ethiopia’s highlands (coffee grows best on high ground). From there, it spread across Egypt and Yemen, Europe, and eventually to as far afield as the Americas. [...] [...] Coffee comes from a plant called “Coffea”, of which there are several varieties. The most common (and generally most popular) type is “Coffea arabica”, which comes from Ethiopia and Yeman and is believed to have been the first species of coffee plant ever to be cultivated. It’s thought that the very first coffee drinkers lived somewhere around the ninth century, having discovered the plant in Ethiopia’s highlands (coffee grows best on high ground). From there, it spread across Egypt and Yemen, Europe, and eventually to as far afield as the Americas. [...]

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