SC - Byzantine Cooking (Long)

[David Friedman]

Bear quotes me:

>>Coffee comes into the Islamic world in late period; does anyone know when
>>tea makes its appearance, and when? With the Mongols? It doesn't get to
>>Europe until quite late--17th c. for England.

and responds

>I'll quibble on the coffee.  While its expansion beyond the Arabian
>Peninsula was limited primarily to the rich, it was known and in use as
>early as the 9th Century.

Evidence? The Hattox book concludes, after looking at a good deal of
evidence and disputed claims, that it was native to Abyssinia, and didn't
come into use in Arabia until the middle of the 15th c.




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


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