Dark light, latte or not, you enjoy your coffee in Jazzman's. But did you know that this drink is more than a thousand year old one.

Different legends exist about the apparition of the coffee. The Archangel Gabriel would have given to the prophet Mohammed a drink which saved him from the sleeping sickness. This beverage was black as the Holy Black Stone of Mecca, and it gave Mohammed the strength to kill 40 enemies and honor women.

Another history localizes the birth of the coffee in Ethiopia. Kaldi, a goat herder, was surprised to see his goats running and jumping all day long after eating the cherries of a tree. Kaldi Asked for advice to a local monk. This one hit on the idea of making an infusion of these cherries. As this beverage was giving energy, the whole monastery used it to stay awake during prayers. The first one type of coffee was born.

The recipe evolved while coffee spread on Arabic world and enter the Muslims habits. They began to roast the beans, and then to grind it, and the drink came nearer to what it is now.

The Venetians trade merchants, who were very powerful in the 17 th century, discovered coffee while they were trading with Arabs of North Africa, Egypt and the East. They brought it in Europe and began to sell it. The first European coffee house opened in Italy in 1683,in Venice. The most famous coffee house in the world, The Caffe Florian opened its doors on Piazza San Marco in 1720.

The black beans started to conquer the Old world.

Did you know that the Lloyd's Bank was a coffee house at its beginning? And that women were not allowed to enter the English coffee houses. They wrote in 1674 the "Women's Petition against Coffee" to complain because their husbands were spending all their time in coffee houses.

The black beans arrived in America in 1700, thanks to a French infantry captain. Because of a lack of water on his boat, he gave all his water during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to save the coffee tree that he had brought with him. The tree survived but not him. 19 millions of tree grew in the next 50 years from this one on the Caribbean Island of Martinique. This story is the beginning of all the South and Central America coffee trade.

Coffee has been assimilated during centuries to an intellectual beverage, keeping minds awake and thinking. Many great minds of Europe used this beverage, and forum, as a springboard to heightened thought and creativity.

Coffee houses are said as places where ideas of revolution began before the Boston Tea Party in and 1773 The French Revolution of 1789.

Because the English were taxing tea excessively, coffee was declared national drink at the beginning of the United States.

The drink has evolved a lot since its birth in Ethiopia. For example Espresso was invented in 1832 with the first espresso machine in France, and then Italians improved this machine and were the first to manufacture it.

Nowadays coffee trade involves economical and political relationships from all over the world. 400 billion coffee cup are drunk each year, which is almost 12 700 each second.

It is one of the world's most important primary commodities; it ranks second only to petroleum in terms of dollars traded worldwide, ($70 billion pa).