Trabalho sobre o café e sua história (em inglês)

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This paper is about coffee. Nowadays there are lots of people that love coffee and drink it everyday. There are websites dedicated only to coffee like “coffeeandhealth.ca”, “coffeescience.org”, “positivelycoffee.org” and more. And, besides that, coffee affect lives of people that don’t even drink it. There are three principal topics in this paper. The first one is the “History of coffee”, that is, how coffee became this important beverage. The second one is “Coffee around the world”. In this topic, there are the 10 biggest producers of coffee nowadays and some details about the major producer: Brazil. And the third one is about health benefits coffee brings to its drinkers.

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“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.” That’s the recipe for coffee, according to the utterly French statesman Talleyrand (1754-1838).

➢ History of coffee
No one knows exactly how or when coffee was discovered, though there are many legends about its origin.

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In the Ethiopian highlands, where the legend of Kaldi, the goatherd, originated, coffee trees grow today as they have for centuries. It is said that he discovered coffee after noticing that his goats, upon eating berries from a certain tree, became so spirited that they did not want to sleep at night. The Arabs were the first, not only to cultivate coffee but also to begin its trade. By the fifteenth century, coffee was being grown in the Yemeni district of Arabia and by the sixteenth century it was known in Persia, Egypt, Syria and Turkey. With thousands of pilgrims visiting the holy city of Mecca each year from all over the world, word of the 'wine of Araby' as the drink was often called, was beginning to spread far beyond Arabia. In an effort to maintain its complete monopoly in the early coffee trade, the Arabians continued to closely guard their coffee production. European travelers to the Near East