[Sca-cooks] El drama del medieval café

[Elaine Koogler]

Adele de Maisieres wrote:
> Suey wrote:
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>> The Arabs had coffee, they had cups, not sure about saucers, and they 
>> had sugar. They had spoons for liquids and semi-liquids. They did not 
>> use knives or forks. Now at the medieval dinner we are planning we 
>> are having a problem finding wooden soup spoons for the first course 
>> but when it comes to the coffee how can the guests stir it after 
>> adding the sugar?
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> That's very simple.  When you make middle eastern style coffee, the 
> sugar goes directly into the coffee pot, not into the cups.
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However, if you're serving it for a feast, you might want to make sure 
that folks know it has sugar in it.  There are some people who 
can't/shouldn't have sugar.

Kiri