ANST - Traveling INN
susanford
susanford at slackford.norman.ok.us
Wed Apr 1 05:11:24 PST 1998
However, for all PRACTICAL purposes, a tavern that does not
have coffee for us poor 20th Century folks with hangovers
is not going to be all that popular. How did they wake up
before caffiene? :)
Sigrid
> Coffee was probably in use as a beverage by the 14th Century, but in my
> opinion, it was a luxury trade good. (Cariadoc disputes this one, placing
> the spread of coffee in the late 15th century).
>
> Common use of coffee in Arabia Felix doesn't begin until at least the middle
> of the 15th Century. Widespread general usage does not begin until the 16th
> Century.
>
> I have a source placing a coffee house (Kiva Han) in Constantinople in 1475
> CE, but I can not find confirmation. My preferred source (Ukers) doesn't
> place them there until the early 16th Century.
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Susan K. Ford
Norman, Oklahoma, zone 7a
http://www.clueless.norman.ok.us/sf/rerhome.htm
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