[Sca-cooks] food question

[Philippa Alderton]

Thanks, Bear. All I could really remember was that a
significant part of its history was occuring in the
1400s somewhere. I had it in my head, somehow, that it
had come from Asia- I suspect as the result of a
conversation I'd had with Ras and Puck about the
possibilities of it having reached Europe, or at least
Italy, about the time of the Black Plague.... I think
we were discussing trade routes, because of those
ships running from the seige north of Byzantium, into
Italy, carrying the Plague with it....

I need my reference materials- I'm going nutz!!!!

Phlip


--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Coffee is from Africa, Abyssinia to be precise,
> although there are a couple
> other species spread through the Congo basin and in
> West Africa which are
> cultivated these days.
>
> It was known as a medicine as early as 900 CE in
> Persia, but it's use as a
> beverage is probably no earlier than 1250.  It's
> general use in the Islamic
> world begins around 1450 in Yemen and southern
> Arabia.  By the time it
> reached Egypt, the Reconquest had taken Spain.
>
> The earliest European usage is Northern Italy in the
> last quarter of the
> 16th Century (IIRC).  General European use is all
> post-Period.
>
> Bear
>
> >Well, I'd love to see your evidence that Scully
> >decided coffee was New World. The Arabs brought it
> out
> >of Asia, somewhere in the 1400s or so, and through
> >them, it went to Spain, and then to the Americas-
> off
> >the top of my head. Likely have the date wrong-
> just
> >know that it's well out of my period.
> >
> >Phlip
>
>
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