Story of Coffee

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Reading the Newspaper With Hookah at an Old Arab Coffee House. ©Ferraris Arthur Von
1490 Jan 1

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Yemen
The earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the late 15th century, by Sufi Imam Muhammad Ibn Said Al Dhabhani who is known to have imported goods from Ethiopia to Yemen.

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