{"id":3458,"date":"2012-01-04T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T23:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2012-01-04T10:35:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T23:35:18","slug":"ask-us-who-brought-coffee-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/science\/ask-us-who-brought-coffee-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Us: Who brought coffee to Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"coffee\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3459\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/coffee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/coffee.jpg 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/coffee-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The coffee plant is believed to have originated in the Kingdom of Kaffa, in Ethiopia. Image: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Coffee was already common in the Middle East when it spread to Europe.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Italian scientist Prospero Alpini, born in 1553, is commonly credited with its introduction. He is also known for introducing bananas to the continent as well as being the first to fertilise date palms artificially.<\/p>\n<p>Got a burning science question?<\/p>\n<p>Send us your questions to <a href=\" letters@scienceillustrated.com.au \" target=\"blank\">letters@scienceillustrated.com.au<\/a>. If we publish the answer on our website or in the next issue of Science Illustrated you could win amazing prices!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee was already common in the Middle East when it spread to Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-science","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}