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Is Coffee Indian Origin?

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Coffee was introduced to India during the late seventeenth century The story goes that an indian pilgrim to Mecca – known as baba budan – smuggled seven beans back to India from Yemen in 1670 (it was illegal to take coffee seeds out of Arabia at the time) and planted them in the chandragiri hills … Read more

Who Invented Coffee Roasting?

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There are debates surrounding who was the more influential. From the UKs Richard Evans in the 1820s through to Jabez Burns of the US in the mid 1860s and the Probat company who patented the ‘Kaffeeschnellröster’ (rapid coffee roaster) in 1880. Who discovered roasting? The first recorded implements for roasting coffee beans were thin pans … Read more