Coffee (Coffea arabica) was discovered and first cultivated in the Kaffa region of Ethiopia — the word "coffee" itself likely derives from "Kaffa." The Ethiopian coffee ceremony (bunna — ቡና) is among the oldest continuous beverage ceremonies in the world, predating the Arab coffee house tradition by centuries. The specific culinary history of coffee — its Ethiopian origin, its transmission through Yemen and the Arab world, its transformation into the global commodity that shaped trade routes and colonial economies — is inseparable from the story of East African and Arab cultural exchange.
The Ethiopian coffee tradition and its global transmission.
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