witchking-jr reblogged
So when did the hot coffee come into being? It seems that the first pour over dates to the late fifteenth century, in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen (for espresso one would have to wait until the nineteenth century). According to the mid-sixteenth century account of ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaziri, the Sufi imam Dhabhani had brought coffee beans from Ethiopia to his native Yemen in the late fifteenth century, where he and his fellow Sufis began using it to stay alert during the all-night prayer and meditation sessions for which their sect was famous. By 1510, coffee had spread beyond its Sufi origins to attain popularity in Muslim society at large, and was being drunk in major cities such as Mecca and Cairo. https://www.medievalists.net/2019/12/modern-foods-medieval-origins/
