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The History of Coffee: From Yemen's Sufis to Brazil

Coffee grew wild in Ethiopia, but the first drinkers we can document were Sufis in fifteenth-century Yemen. The goatherd Kaldi is a late legend, and the rest of the story is bans, coffeehouses and plantations.

6 min read

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The History of Injera, Ethiopia's Sour Teff Bread

Nobody knows when the first injera was cooked, but the grain behind it was farmed in the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands by about 1600 BCE. Here is what the evidence shows.

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