Coffee may jump-start the day, but it has also given a jolt to world politics and economics. Hundreds of years before Starbucks became a hot spot for making social and business connections over lattes and laptops, thriving coffeehouses of a much different type were widely popular in the Arab world. Those first coffeehouses were in the holy city of Mecca in present-day Saudi Arabia. Nothing like them had ever existed. These were public places, known as kaveh kanes, where people gathered for the same reasons they go to Starbucks today, for coffee and conversation, to discover and share the news of the day, and to conduct business. They also enjoyed music, but not through earbuds plugged into mobile devices, of course. Those early Arabian coffeehouses were vibrant places that pulsated with singing and dancing performers gyrating to the rhythm of Middle Eastern music.
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The Arabica is the original coffee plant. It still grows wild in Ethiopia. It takes 2,000 Arabica coffee cherries to make a roasted pound of coffee which are normally picked by hand as they ripen. Since each cherry contains two beans, it takes about 4,000 Arabica beans to make a pound of roasted coffee.