Sit back, grab a hot cup of coffee, and find out how this warming, beautiful (and necessary) drink became so popular.

There are many myths and no certain answers, but the best-known tale places coffee's origins in Ethiopia. As the story goes, a goat herder named Kaldi was hanging out around 850 A.D. when he ...

Kaldi is said to have lived in Abyssinia (now known as Ethiopia) around the year A.D. 850. One day, as he was herding his ...

Traditional accounts say an Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi noticed his goats acting strangely one day after eating berries from a tree. He tried them himself, and felt energized and alert. Kaldi ...

Coffee must have been the secret weapon of Greek, Slav, and Albanian mercenary units, the stratioti, that fought together throughout Europe in the 15th to 18th centuries. The stratioti must have ...