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introduction
Coffee is a food frequently consumed as a beverage obtained by infusion from the fruits and seeds. Coffee cultivation is widespread in many tropical countries, especially Brazil, but also in Africa

Origins
The tree of coffee has its center of origin in the distant Abyssinia ,in current Ethiopia, in the North-East of Africa. They stand its commercial importance, the species of Arabic coffees and robust coffees in the world. The first species covers nearly three-quarters of world production and is cultivated mainly in Central and South America

How it is made
It seems that the African tribes, who knew the coffee since ancient times, grind their grain and made a paste used to feed the animals and to increase the forces of the warriors.

Coffe´s cultivation spread
Its cultivation spread first in Arabia, probably brought by prisoners of war, became popular where taking advantage of the prohibition of alcohol by Islam.

= introduction of the coffe to the americas: = [|Gabriel de Clieu] brought coffee seedlings to [|Martinique] in the Caribbean circa 1720. Those sprouts flourished and 50 years later there were 18,680 coffee trees in Martinique enabling the spread of coffee cultivation to [|Haiti], Mexico and other islands of the Caribbean. The territory of San Domingo saw coffee cultivated from 1734, and by 1788 it supplied half the world's coffee. The French colonial plantations relied heavily on African slave laborers. However, the dreadful conditions that the slaves worked in on coffee plantations were a factor in the soon to follow [|Haitian Revolution]. The coffee industry never fully recovered there.