A History of Coffee on its way to the U.S
A History of Coffee on its way to the U.S
Gabriel de Clieu brought seedlings to Martinique in the Caribbean in 1720. These beans seeds then traveled Mexico and Brazil where the first plantations began. Brazil then became the largest supplier of coffee beans for the next century and beyond. From Martinique these coffee seedlings spread to Haiti, Mexico and other islands in the Caribbean. Coffee beans also found its way to Bourbon Island in the Indian Ocean and spread from there around 1727. These were a smaller type of Arabica bean called “Bourbon.”
The taste for coffee came to America with the British in the 1600s. More of the travels of the coffee beans tomorrow and when it came actually came to America. Coffee makers also came to America and were made in America.