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00:00:00: Welcome to Curious Minutes.

00:00:02: I'm your host, and today we're looking at coffee—the drink that fuels half the planet every morning!

00:00:08: The story begins.

00:00:10: according to legend in ninth-century Ethiopia A goat herder named Caldy noticed his goats bouncing with energy after eating the red berries of a certain shrub.

00:00:20: Curious he tried some himself.

00:00:23: Soon monks at a nearby monastery were brewing the berries into a drink From Ethiopia, coffee traveled across the Red Sea to Yemen where it was roasted and brewed in something close to its modern form by the fifteenth century.

00:00:39: Coffee houses sprang up across the Arab world then Istanbul Then Venice In London Paris And Vienna.

00:00:47: they became The social hubs of the Enlightenment Places To argue gossip and read the news.

00:00:53: Today the World drinks about two billion cups Of coffee a day.

00:00:57: That's a lot of energy built from a single shrub in an Ethiopian forest.

00:01:02: Next time you take a sip, remember Caldy and his very alert goats!

00:01:07: Thanks for listening to Curious Minutes.

00:01:10: See you next episode.