[Sca-cooks] Questions on coffee
David Friedman
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Tue Jan 26 22:45:18 PST 2010
>...
>* Coffee seems to have been drunk in Persia since the ninth century.
To the best of my knowledge that is not true.
>* It was first cultivated around 675 in Arabia.
Ditto.
>* Abu ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was acquainted with coffee
>around the year 1000.
I think there is some evidence for references to coffee in the
medicinal literature well before it was being used as a drink outside
of Abyssinia. This might be one of them.
>* 1475 The first coffee shop opens in Istanbul (Kiva Han). It is still
>open.
Might be correct.
>* The first European to mention coffee is Prospero Alpino of Padua.
>In 1580
>he went to Egypt, then under Ottoman rule.
Might be correct.
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