Coffee

a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds  from certain flowering plants in the coffee genus. From the coffee fruit, the seeds are separated to produce a stable, raw product: green coffee. The seeds are then roasted, a process which transforms them into a consumable product: roasted coffee, which is ground into fine particles that are typically steeped in hot water before being filtered out, producing a cup of coffee.

Type...    Hot or ice cold

Color..Black, dark brown, light brown, 

Region...Horn of africa

                South Arabia

History The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century in the accounts of Ahmed Al GHAFfAR in Yemen. It was here in arabia that coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed in a similar way to how it is prepared now. Coffee was used by Sufi circles to stay awake for their religious rituals. Accounts differ on the origin of the coffee plant prior to its appearance in Yemen.

coffee house  in Mecca became a concern as places for political gatherings to the imams who banned them, and the drink, for Muslims between 1512 and 1524. In 1530 the first coffeehouse was opened in Damascus.