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The History of Coffee

Apr 20, 2023
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Dutch Spread Coffee Plant

  • Dutch merchant Peter Vandenbrucha brought live coffee plants to the Netherlands in 1616.
  • These plants thrived and led to coffee cultivation in Dutch colonies like Java, ending Arabia's coffee monopoly.
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Indian Coffee Introduction

  • Indian Sufi Baba Budan secretly brought coffee seeds to southern India in the 17th century.
  • These seeds were first grown in the town of Chick-Magalur, starting Indian coffee cultivation.
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French Coffee Industry Beginnings

  • The mayor of Amsterdam gifted King Louis XIV a coffee plant in 1714, unknowingly starting French coffee industry.
  • French naval officer Gabriel de Clieu took seedlings to Martinique in 1720, expanding coffee plants dramatically.
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