The plant of coffee is originaly from Ethiopia. From Ethiopia went to Arabia and then to India. This happend probably through travelling Muslims who traveled to Mecca. Peregrinations routes were great commercial routes as well. But the great propagators of the coffee plant were the Dutch, that operated great plantations in their colonies of Ceylon and Indonesia.
The Dutch imported the coffee plant and acclimated it in the botanical gardens of Ámsterdam, Paris and London, from where it went to the Dutch Guayana, Brazil, South America, Central America and other countries.
The Arabs were the first in discovering the virtues and the economic possibilities of coffee. They developed all the process of cultivationg and processing coffee and kept it like a secret.
Coffee began to conquer territory in the world like the favorite drink in Europe, and arrived at Italy in 1645 thanks to the Italian retailer Veneciano Pietro Della Valle. England began to consume coffee in 1650 thanks to the retailer Daniel Edwards, who was the first person who opened a coffeeshop in England and Europe.
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