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

[kingstaste at mindspring.com]

And it is interesting to see that he basically agrees with other bean
designations, cold and dry (although he says 1 degree of hot, but others say
1 degree of cold).
Back to your earlier comment, would coffee 'beans' be considered berries or
fruits because they grow on trees and not within a pod?
Christianna


Avicenna (approx. 1000 CE) is referring to the properties of the unroasted
coffee bean for medical purposes.  Coffee beans as medicine pre-date
Avicenna by at least 100 years, being first referenced by Rhazes.  They
apparently were crushed and used in a powdered state.  Limited use as a
beverage is believed to begin around 250 years after Avicenna, while general
beverage use and cultivation in southern Arabia begins around 1450 CE.

Bear