[Sca-cooks] Why no alcohol?

[Terry Decker]

Mid-15th Century is when coffee as a beverage and coffee growing came to
Southern Arabia.  The first recorded legal dispute is in Mecca in 1511.  The
document being referred to is probably al-Jaziri's history of coffee and the
religious debate surrounding it which was written about 1558.

Bear

>>Of course, they're also like Christians in that others don't drink
anything
>>intoxicating. One of our sources for documentation for coffee is the
debates
>>they held over the intoxicating qualities of coffee/caffeine, round about
>>the pre-teen/14th centuries.
>
>Mid-fifteenth and thereafter, I think, at least according to Hattox.
>--
>David/Cariadoc