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I love white chocolate mocha.

And when I went to Mecca a month and a half ago, I made sure I had my mocha every single day.

But do you know that if I had drank a mocha in mocha hundred years ago I would have actually been jailed

taken in front of a judge punished and then whipped and lashed for the crime of

drinking a mocha in maka. I kid you not, but before I get to the mocha

in maka, do you know that even the word coffee it actually comes from the Arabic

Kahua you all know Kahua and the English word coffee comes from the area

Kahua and the Arabic Kahua most likely it comes from a province or a land in Ethiopia called

Kaffa and it was in this area where people first roasted beans that we now call coffee beans

or coffee plants and some yammany traders yamani where are the yamones

represent mache a la

Yes indeed yamones machea alah. I would have been proud to be a Yamani because our

prophecies and praise the people of Yaman.

Al-Hikma to Yamanin and what Imanu Yamani.

Some Yamani traders, they went to Ethiopia, and this is around the 9th Islamic century, the 13th or

12th Gregorian century, and they brought back these beans and they call them beans from Kaffa so kahua so coffee and eventually

they started growing these beans in Yemen and it became so popular they

had to export the beans to other lands.

And the city of export was a very famous city, it's still a very famous export city,

called al-Muha.

And the beans from al-Muha and the preparation for al-Muha became mocha.

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