The history of coffee goes at least as far back as the thirteenth century, though coffee's origin remains unclear.

It had been believed that Ethiopian ancestors of today's Oromo people were the first to have discovered and recognized the energizing effect of the coffee bean plant. However no direct evidence has been found indicating where in Africa coffee grew or who among the natives might have used it as a stimulant or even known about it, earlier than the 17th century. The story of Kaldi, the 9th-century Ethiopian goatherd who discovered coffee, did not appear in writing until 1671 and is probably apocryphal. From Ethiopia, coffee was said to have spread to Egypt and Yemen. The earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the fifteenth century, in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen. It was here in Arabia that coffee beans were first roasted and brewed, in a similar way to how it is now prepared. By the 16th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East, Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa. Coffee then spread to Italy, and to the rest of Europe, to Indonesia, and to the Americas. Summary by Wikipedia. Thius is a wonderful library of sixty-two {62} books about coffee, its history, recipes (Create the perfect cup!) and growing on a Gift Quality DVD.

This is a wonderful library of sixty-two {62} books about coffee, its history, recipes (Create the perfect cup!) and growing on a Gift Quality DVD.

:: A brief sketch of Miner's coffee and spice mills and coffee hulling (1889)

:: A Treatise on Coffee (1831)

:: A treatise on the nature and cultivation of coffee; with remarks on the management and purchase of coffee estates (1865)

:: All about coffee (1922)

:: Brief Sketch of Coffee (1889)

:: Campbell's tea, coffee and spice manual, a comprehensive trade manual on teas, coffees and spices (1920)

:: Coffee - Its Cultivation and Profit (1886)

:: Coffee (1938)

:: Coffee and Chicory (1864)

:: Coffee and India Rubber Culture in Mexico (1898)

:: Coffee and its Adultrations (1867)

:: Coffee and Its History (1872)

:: Coffee and repartee (1899)

:: Coffee and Repartee (1900)

:: Coffee and Repartee (1902)

:: Coffee From Growers (19xx)

:: Coffee From Plantation to Cup (1884)

:: Coffee in America (1893)

:: Coffee in America (1895)

:: Coffee its history, classification (1894)

:: Coffee its history, classification and description (1894)

:: Coffee its history, cultivation, and uses (1872)

:: Coffee Physiology and History (1865)

:: Coffee Planting (1877)

:: Coffee planting (1902)

:: Coffee planting in southern India and Ceylon (1877)

:: Coffee Private Cipher Code (1894)

:: Coffee production, trade, and consumption by countries (1912)

:: Coffee, from grower to consumer (1900)

:: Coffee, tea, and chocolate their influence upon the health, the intellect, and the moral nature of man (1846)

:: Coffee; its history and also its remarkable growth in the world of commerce (1898)

:: Cultivation and Preperation of Coffee (1916)

:: Factors Effecting Coffee Cream (19xx)

:: Food and Food Adulterants (1875)

:: Gold, Sport and Coffee Planting 91898)

:: Hardtack and coffee (1887)

:: History of a coffee bean - Compliments of Chase & Sanborn (1895)

:: How to make perfect coffee (1922)

:: Jottings on coffee, its culture, Mysore (1879)

:: Natural History of Coffee (1682)

:: Note on the late Mr. Crawfurd's paper on the migration of coffee, tea, etc. (1869)

:: Planting in Uganda (1913)

:: Practical coffee planting (1922)

:: Six cups of coffee prepared for the public palate (1887)

:: Six Cups of Coffee (1887)

:: Tea & Coffee - Physical and Moral Effects (1884)

:: Tea, coffee and cocoa, a practical treatise on the analysis of tea, coffee, cocoa (1874)

:: Tea, coffee, and cocoa preparations (1892)

:: The Coffee House (1895)

:: The Coffee Planer of Ceylon (1870)

:: The Coffee Public House (1878)

:: The coffee publichouse, how to establish and manage it (1878)

:: The Corner in Coffee (1904)

:: The cultivation and preparation of coffee for the market (1916)

:: The Cultivation of Coffee (1881)

:: The Hawaiian coffee planters' manual (1894)

:: The Natural Cultivation of Coffee (1865)

:: The Natural history of coffee (1682)

:: The Valorisation of Coffee in Brazil (1907)

:: Told in the Coffee House (1898)

:: Treatise on the Effect of Coffee (1876)

:: Ye Crown coffee house, a story of old Boston (1916)