The Lore Surrounding Coffee and Tea

One is either a tea drinker or a coffee drinker. That is how it seems for most people. Tea drinkers are normally seen as health buffs, people who take extra care in what they eat and who are interested in cleansing the body and the spirit.

Coffee drinkers, on the other hand, have always been the beverage of choice of people who are constantly on the go, such as busy people who tirelessly work through the night. Coffee has also been associated with artists, novelists, and other jobs involved in the creative pursuit. It's little surprise then that the lore surrounding this strange but delicious brew is nothing short of the extraordinary.

According to one legend, coffee was supposedly discovered after a goat herd found his goats running wild and agitated. To find out what was causing this, he sampled a bit of the evergreen that the goats were eating then getting the first taste of the brew that would soon become known as coffee.

In the beginning coffee was such a precious commodity that coffee plants were cultivated only in Africa. In one of the stories published in Encyclopedia Britannica, one of the main proponents of coffee in the Americas was a certain French naval officer. When he found out that the Dutch were able to transplant coffee to the West Indies, he decided to cultivate one for himself in Martinique. The officer was supposed to have shipped his plant to his home country, sharing his precious water supply with the coffee plant. Apparently, his efforts amounted to a great success as he soon became the lone supplier of coffee in his country.

In contrast, the discovery of tea is somewhat serene and Zen-like. The stories of how tea was discovered, in fact, pale in comparison to the drama that preceded with the discovery of coffee. In one of the stories, tea was supposedly discovered in ancient China. A Chinese person was said to be camping in a mountain when a floating leaf fell into a boiling pot and emitted this aromatic smell. He then took a sip of the liquid thus discovering tea for the very first time.

Whether or not the effect of the beverages somehow caused the actions of the people involved in the stories, it is clear though that the lore surrounding coffee and tea couldn't be more different as their flavor and the effect they produce on the drinkers.

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