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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