[Sca-cooks] A college class... on Coffee

[Sue Clemenger]

There's a whole theory about that social change....from 
drinking/consuming sedative beverages (alcohol) to drinking beverages 
that contain "pick me ups", and the rise of the teetotal movements, etc. 
, together with the rise of industrialism. It's really very interesting, 
although unfortunately completely OT and OOP for this list.
--maire, history buff

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> I think what you're describing is a phenomenon that doesn't necessarily 
> translate into a universal trend throughout history. Coffee-houses were 
> in vogue among the upper classes in the seventeenth and eighteenth 
> centuries, probably because coffee was not something the working classes 
> trusted or could afford. There's an interesting reversal of the social 
> order in the nineteenth century, where Joe Average stopped hanging out 
> [as much] in the alehouse and started drinking tea and coffee and cocoa, 
> and that, as much at home, or more so, as at shops dedicated for that 
> purpose.