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One should say “Merry Christmas”  about now, the fifth week of Advent in the Traditional Church year. Wait, that is for another blog..

My interest in coffee goes further than 2014.  Coffee is an American beverage more-so than a European beverage, even though coffee was consumed for many years before America was even thought of as a nation state or corporate state.

If the articles are to be believed, coffee originated in Ethiopia  as far as a human discovery, about 2000 years ago.  So it would logically be possible for Europeans to have drunk the brew as early as 100 A.D. or C.E. as the trade routes from Africa’s center to Europe were already established and guarded by Egyptians, Persians, and the Roman Empire.

Mind you this is speculation. The Arabic history of coffee shows more likely the 10 century A.D. as to when coffee was drank first in circles larger than native Ethiopian villages. There are many histories written that include coffee as a sidebar, so I suggest looking at those histories with interest and a bit of speculation.