As a coffee lover, I always love to know anything about coffee, including its history ... its beginnings. Nobody really knows who discovered this wonderful companion, this great friend to many of us. Coffee!
Kaldi, 850 A.D.
Some writers say that coffee may have been discovered by an Ethiopian goatherd called Kaldi. This was around 850 A.D. Apparently, Kaldi found his goats getting really excited, joyous, after eating the berries off a particular kind of bush.
Satori Kato, 1840
From about 1840, a coffee extract was produced. This was in liquid form. However, the first powdered instant coffee was made by a chemist, Satori Kato, a Japanese living in the U.S. in 1901.
The Nestlé Company, 1938, and Beyond
We are now in 21st century and many things have transpired. As far as we are concern, the modern instant coffee was produced in Vevey, Switzerland by The Nestlé Company. This was in 1938. The coffee was called Nestlé, to this day. The idea of turning coffee beans into a soluble powder had been suggested by the Brazilian of Coffee sometime in 1930. Well, a lot of process improvement have gone on. We have our processed Instant Coffee.
Anyone for a cuppa?
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