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The oldest coffee in the world, BBC Travel
"Coffee ceremonies are the centre of social life and hospitality in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee."
I don't remember such coffee ceremonies during my five years in Ethiopia, but I did buy a beautiful and rather ingenious black pottery coffee jug (a clay vessel inside a vessel, filled from a hole in the bottom), perhaps from the girls below. I tend to buy coffee beans (buna) from Ethiopia (Sidamo) and Kenya.
I might have bought it in Harar:
or in the Addis Market
Colleagues in Addis Ababa
"Coffee came to Turkey during the reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. When the man he despatched to govern Yemen came across an energising drink known there as qahwah, he brought it back to the Ottoman court in Constantinople, where it was an instant hit".
Maria still prefers to drink tea - Kiricho Tea Plantation, Kenya:
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