Rarely, however, there dwells to think of the origins of this gesture and this drink become synonymous of behavior.
Around this drink have created many legends and folk traditions there who says that already the time of Homer, in the city of Troy, used coffee. The first coffee in Europe seems to be come even around 900 – 1000 AD thanks to the many ships that brought unknown goods from all parts.
One thing certain is what he sees sip this dark drink, become, in what is today Yemen, a real custom, even supported by the government that praised its energy quality.
For Europe is somewhat ‘say that certainly the first coffee came through the Venetian traders, in 1615, especially remembers Prospero Alpini, botanist, physician of Venices console, who studied the drink and brought to the knowledge of the Venices city. At first the coffee was also used for its digestive and medical properties and also for this its price was immediately quite high.
Today we find yet Caff Florian, one of the oldest coffees shop, under the arcades of St Marks Square, Venice, which even then to disseminate this drink, did distribute a text that praised properties....