[Sca-cooks] Beans, beans, the musical fruit....

[Sue Clemenger]

Is he referring to the coffee beans before they're roasted or something?
--maire, coffee fiend, but not for the weak, sissy stuff....

Terry Decker wrote:

> And just for fun, I will point out that there is a question of the position
> of "bunchum" or "bunn" (coffee) in the humoral hierarchy, att least
> according to Abu Ali Al-Hussain Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina (Avicenna), "As to the
> choice thereof, that of a lemon color, light, and of a good smell, is the
> best; the white and the heavy is naught.  It is hot and dry in the first
> degree, and, according to others, cold in the first degree.  It fortifies
> the members, it cleans the skin, and dries up the humidities that are under
> it, and gives an excellent smell to all the body."
>