Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East
The author recounts the colorful history of the spread of coffee and the influence of coffeehouses in the Medieval Near East.
The author recounts the colorful history of the spread of coffee and the influence of coffeehouses in the Medieval Near East.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780295962313 (0295962313)
ASIN: 9780295962313
Publish date: 2000-09-05
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Coffee is so commonplace today that most of its avid consumers are unaware of just how controversial a beverage it was in its early years. Yet its initial appearance in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was opposed by several legal and medical figures, some of whom even attempted to ban coffee f...