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Once upon a time, a shepherd named Kaldi led his goats to graze in an area covered with bushed which featured white, fragrant flowers. These bushes, besides beautiful flowers, also featured plenty of red fruit. Kaldi tore off a branch, which bent under the weight of the fruit, and fed it to his goat, hoping that they will enjoy the tastes offered by the newly discovered pasture. How surprised he was when the usually calm goats started jumping and frolic after the meal. The shepherd, intrigued by this unusual behaviour of the animals, tried the red fruit himself and started to feel exceptionally refreshed.

It is hard to determine in what circumstances people started drinking coffee. Most probably, its exceptional taste was discovered during a fire. Medicinal properties were looked for – as with most plants. First plantations on the Ethiopian Highlands and Horn of Africa were created as early as 575 B.C.
During the 9th Century, coffee became known under the name bunn in Persia. This name was given to coffee by a renowned doctor and philosopher Abu Ali Ibn Sina, known as Avicenna in Europe. Interestingly, in Ethiopia – the homeland of coffee – the Persian name is used to this day. Only in the 18th Century, a Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus gave the plant a botanic name Coffea arabica.

Initially, extract from green seeds was drunk, steeped in cold water for a long time. It wasn't until roasting of coffee was introduced at the end if the 14th Century, which allowed its full taste and aroma to be enjoyed.
First bags full of coffee reached Europe thanks to the Venetians around 1615. Despite the fact that the Arabs kept the technology of farming and processing coffee a well-guarded secret, nine years later the secret was discovered and the first coffee shop was opened in Venice within a few months.