[Sca-cooks] Re: Yes, it's gross, but I'm curious . . .

[Terry Decker]

Coffee is much more likely to be an experiment than an accident.  Coffee
beans were being crushed for solid medicine 500 years before they became a
popular beverage.  The Persian physicians who prescribed it, probably
experimented with it as an infusion.  It moved into the Sufist community as
a ritual beverage (Persian physician and Sufi being almost interchangable
terms), then moved from the Sufis in southern Arabia into the general
community.

Bear

>Well, like many culinary traditions, it probably started with the phrase:
>
>"Here, you want this?  I'm just going to throw it away..."
>
>Probably the same way beer, coffee and other beverages got started.
>
>Cadoc