SC - coffe and tea at events

[david friedman]

At 5:32 PM -0600 1/25/98, Decker, Terry D. wrote:
>If coffee was not in use and under cultivation before it became popular,
>where did the coffee beans come from to meet the demand?  If coffee was
>under cultivation, what was the market for coffee before it became
>popular?  They are questions worth answering, but the answers may be
>beyond my limited skills.

1. Coffee could have been imported from Abyssinia, where it had been grown
for a long tmie.

2. Starting a new crop doesn't take centuries. Maise shows up in a Chinese
herbal in the mid-sixteenth century, for instance. Once you know how to
grow it--and presumably that could be learned from the Abyssinians--a few
decades are enough to get you to big crops via the magic of geometric
growth.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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