History of Coffee - Documentary

In this video, we take a look at the history behind one of the world's most beloved beverages.

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[Fireoflearning]

Correction - Coffee is not grown on soil that once was a part of the Amazon rainforest, but in other parts of the country.

[Liphted]

I grew up on a coffee plantation for four years. It was in the middle of the jungle in the western interior of Puerto Rico, at the time I kinda hated it but looking back it was actually pretty cool.

[JaelaOrdo]

“Can’t let the Muslims have all the caffeinated fun.”

- Pope Clement VIII

[guilhermewessler]

14:25 Just a small correction: the main regions used for coffee production in Brazil are in Southeastern Brazil, nowhere near the Amazon rainforest, which would be very unaccessible in the following years of Brazilian independence. Anyway, excellent video!

[Vibeshifter]

This man needs more subs, he explains with good details, a calm voice with a good background. Does not overwhelm us with flashy animation and background music of a rave.

[EUSA]

No frills, good pacing, highly informative, clearly written. Hell of a documentary, many mugs to you sir.

[paracelsius]

Attention: in Brazil, historiically and even now, coffee was not cultivated in the Amazonic region, but rather in other biomas like the Cerrado or Atlantic Jungle.

[youngmasterzhi]

Fun fact: Since the first early coffeehouses were favorite hangouts for intellects, these places were also colloquially known as "penny universities"

[Facelessbuster]

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[doubledoubleg]

I have coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon and evening, and beer on my days off.

[AJtheBlue]

Probably won’t see this but if you ever make another food related history video I think I’d be cool to go over American foods that were brought over to the old world during the columbian exchange and their impact on the worlds diets.

[j.garxia]

the fact that I'm watching this while drinking coffee

[AydinProductionsLtd]

The interesting part for me as someone that was born in Turkey but grew up in Canada was seeing that the style of Turkish coffee as it's widely known was something my parents had when family or friends visited rather than the regular coffee that we drink today as a daily drink. It was accompanied by a Turkish sweet like Baklava or Lokumm (Turkish Delight.) The main difference that I discovered with Turkish coffee compared to Syrian, middle east coffee was that they added cardamom. The most interesting thing is Turkey doesn't produce coffee but grows tea and it is consumed more than probably most Europeans and even the Brits don't drink as much Tea as Turks do! I think the best thing about Turkish coffee in Turkey is the way of roasting it and grinding it that really is different compared and probably made the difference in the consumption of it and being loved by Europeans. Now of course we have many varieties of coffee drinks but it would have started somewhere in the sense of making it palatable or interesting .

[monarchblue]

When you're about to go to sleep but Fire of Learning uploads ; sparking a need for caffeine to stay awake.

[vitormateusrigotti]

Great video! I watched it drinking my morning coffee, btw!!

As a Brazilian I only have one little correction to make. Coffee was never grown in the Amazon. Most of coffee production came (and still come) from the southeast, around São Paulo. The region was covered by the Atlantic Forest, not the Amazon

[lugialover]

Funnily enough, tea is actually a much more common drink in Turkey than coffee due to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and loss of Yemen which meant it then had to be imported rather than produced internally.

[hassanabdikarimmohamed]

Coffee originated in Ethiopia and was spread to the world by Somali merchants who exported the coffee to the ottoman ruled yemen, Egypt etc through the Somali coastal cities of Zeila and Berbera

[ecmpinho]

The region in Brazil where coffe plantations florished was Vale do Paraíba (an area inbetween Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Minas Gerais), as far away from Amazon as Moscow is from Rome.

[nicholasmunroe]

I’d love to see more of the “What if’s” time paradox’s! I loved the medieval king one and the others!

[byronlee]

I started drinking coffee when I was 17. Been drinking it ever since. The fact that humans have been drinking it for centuries... that's really interesting stuff!

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