SC - Coffee-History

[margali]

> How do you know that what Avicenna describes is coffee? My main source
> is
> the Hattox book (full reference in the Miscellany article on what
> ingredients came into use when), and his claim is that it started
> being
> used outside of Abyssinia (where it is native) pretty late, I think c.
>
> 1400. That permits the possibility that it was drunk earlier as an
> exotic--but how clear is it that it is true?
>
> David/Cariadoc
> http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
>

per some research done for a class on coffee for at pensic, the coffee
was originally the greeen dried bean, steeped just like tea. roasting
came a bit later.
margali

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