Dancing Goats!

When you take a sip of coffee, you drink in hundreds of years of history. And not just insipid, teacher-droning-on-endlessly-in-a-monotone history but a tale rich with thrilling stories that delight and inspire. It all begins with a wonderful, apocryphal account that involves ancient Muslims and dancing goats. Like most legends, it’s been passed down for many years, and the precise origin is unclear. At the center stands a young ninth-century Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi. One day Kaldi took a short midday nap, as he was wont to do, and when he awoke, the goats in his care had…