Turkish coffee is the healthiest kind to consume as the ground seeds stay at the bottom of the cup and are not meant to be swallowed. This same reason has brought the tradition of fortune telling from Turkish coffee to life.

It was circa 450 years ago that Suleiman the Magnificent’s Governor of the Yemen, Ozdemir Pasha brought coffee from the Yemen to the Ottoman palace. Turkish coffee was introduced to the world by merchants from Venice and later Marseilles during the first half of the 16th century. The Italian voyager Pietro della Valle presented his friends with this drink he had discovered and had come to enjoy tremendously. In 1669 the Ottoman Ambassador Hossohbet Nuktedan Suleiman Aga served Turkish coffee to Parisian high society who came to consider it a privilege to be invited to his residence.

In 1683, with the invasion of Vienna by the Ottoman army, coffee made its entrance to the city. If it had not been for a translator who knew what the beans were, sacks full of coffee thought to be camel fodder were to be dumped into the Danube river.

Coffee also made its way into the history of music: J.S. Bach wrote his famous Coffee Cantate solely for the love of coffee.