SC - coffe and tea at events

[david friedman]

At 11:42 PM -0500 1/23/98, LrdRas wrote:
>In a message dated 1/23/98 2:53:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, ddfr at best.com
>writes:
>
><< A Middle Eastern persona from when? >>
>
>15th Century, Turkish

In that case, if Hattox's chronology is correct, you may never have tasted
coffee and certainly do not regard it as something to be routinely served
to guests. He has it first introduced (from Abyssinia) into Yemen in the
15th c., reaching Mecca in the last decade of the century and Cairo in the
first decade of the 16th. So it hasn't gotten to the Ottomans yet, although
it is barely possible that you have tasted it when travelling in Arabia.

Someone should put together a list of things everyone believes that aren't
so, including coffee in al-Islam (through most of our period), curved
swords as the norm in al-Islam at the time of the crusades, medieval people
never bathing, ...   .

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


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