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"Coffee" traveled six centuries and every continent.

Ethiopian highlands → Yemen (Sufi mystics, 1450) → Ottoman coffeehouses (1554) → Venice (1645) → Java (1696) → Martinique & Brazil (1720s) → global 19th c.

One bean. One word. Your cup.

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Did You Know Coffee, slide 1 of 4. Three script hero: coffee (Latin), قهوة (Arabic), 咖啡 (Han). Tagline: One drink. Every continent. Six centuries. Multilinguo brand. Did You Know Coffee, slide 2 of 4. Ge'ez Ethiopic origin word bunn ቡና in ember. Tagline: One Ethiopian plant, six centuries. Prose explains wild coffee shrubs in Ethiopian highlands. Around 1450, Sufi mystics in Yemen roasted the beans, brewed qahwa قهوة, the Arabic word for wine. It kept them awake for night prayer. By 1554, first coffeehouse opened in Istanbul. Did You Know Coffee, slide 3 of 4. From Yemen to your cup. Four numbered milestones. 01 Venice 1645: caffè, European gateway. Venetian merchants bring coffee back. Paris and London follow with penny universities. 02 Java 1696: koffie, Dutch plantation empire. Dutch smugglers steal plants from Yemen, cultivate in Ceylon and Java. 03 Martinique and Brazil 1720-1727: café, colonial Americas. Gabriel de Clieu brings seedling to Martinique. Palheta smuggles seeds to Brazil, which becomes world's largest producer. 04 Global 19th-20th c.: kāfēi 咖啡, kōhī コーヒー, kāphī कापी, kāfɛː กาแฟ. Every Asian language borrows via European trade. Did You Know Coffee, slide 4 of 4. Same drink. Every language borrowed it. Three regions: Europe (Italian caffè, French café, English coffee, German Kaffee, Dutch koffie, Russian кофе kofe, Polish kawa, Spanish café, Portuguese café), Middle East and Africa (Arabic قهوة qahwa, Turkish kahve, Persian قهوه qahve, Hebrew קפה kafe, Amharic ቡና bunn, Swahili kahawa), Asia (Chinese 咖啡 kāfēi, Japanese コーヒー kōhī, Korean 커피 keopi, Vietnamese cà phê, Hindi कापी kāphī, Thai กาแฟ kafae). Note: the Ethiopian origin bunn survives only in East Africa. Every other language borrowed via European trade.
July 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Logotipo de cafetería ficticia "Kaphí, usando solo tipografía para dar forma a elementos representativos dentro del logo, además de un fondo que refuerce la idea y de mejor claridad.

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July 14, 2024 at 5:42 AM