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Calling Kaldi (if he did exist) Ethiopian is historical nonsense considering that Ethiopia didn’t exist back then, and the kingdom before it, Abyssinia, didn’t rule the kingdom of Kaffa where coffee is originally from.

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Interesting, thanks for pointing it out. Most of the history I read always pointed to 9th-century Ethiopian Sufi priests/ monks as the first frequent consumers of coffee. But I agree that using modern-nation names can be misleading.

I agree with you about using modern day nation names being confusing, but just as a correction it would be the Adalite Empire at that time, and the King of Ifat, the precursor state to Adal, was the one who brought coffee to Yemen when he was in exile. Before that local sufis would chew the fried bean as a sort of trail mix, as they still do,

https://somalikitchen.typepad.com/my-blog/2014/03/fried-coff...

Never heard about chewing fried coffee beans before. Fascinating. Thanks for sharing the recipe also...will perhaps try making it on a weekend.

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