[Sca-cooks] The Dutch (food cvontent)

Terri Morgan online2much at cox.net
Thu Sep 20 20:21:30 PDT 2007


>> In 1596 at a coffee and tea merchant's shop in Amsterdam, they 
>> recorded that "the first Dutch man to drink coffee, one Professor 
>> Clusius" tasted the brew...

> You got the source for the above quote?  

Upon double-checking my source and finding a name of the shop, I went online
to see if there was a secondary back-up only to find that the claim was a
commercial fabrication that had made its way into my sourcebook.

Rats.

Thanks for doubting, researching, and calling me on it.

Hrothny



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