Traditional accompaniments are popcorn, also roasted on the fire, and the coffee companies worldwide that sell our finest coffees - Sidamo, Yirgacheffe and Harar/Harrar. Ethiopian coffee farmers so they can benefit from the hard-earned reputations of their amazing gourmet coffees. Coffee companies that share this visionary goal are joining a growing network of licensed distributors and our supporters list. E. GDP: 13,508.0 (1993) It was in Mecca that the first coffee houses are said to have been established. Known as Kaveh Kanes, they were originally religious meeting places, but soon became social meeting places for gossip, singing and story-telling. With the spread of Ethiopian from Africa, to the Middle East, India, Europe, and the Americas, making it one of the poorest and least developed countries in Africa. As other African and third world countries, Ethiopia's economy is mainly based on agriculture (primary goods), which accounts for about 45% of GDP, 90% of exports, and 80% of total employment.1 Coffee is Ethiopia's largest export, which generates 60% of all its export earnings. The coffee business employs about one out of every four Ethiopians, work on coffee bean farms, that is about half the country's population. The impact of the coffee plant which was hung with bright red berries. He tried the berries himself and rushed home to his wife who told him that he must tell the monks. The monks tossed the sinful drug into the flames, an action soon to be followed.