1869 Cooling Cups and Dainty drinks by William Terrington

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Coffee.

I fifteenth century, but during the following century

I it encountered both political and religious opposition.

coffee-houses were

In Constantinople

the

public

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I closed, the Government apprehending they were the

The religious grievance

I receptacles for disaffection.

jj was that the dervishes had discovered that coffee roasted was a kind of coal, and coal being one of 1 the substances interdicted by Mohammed, was there- It was first introduced in Marseilles in 1644, and in Paris in 1657, by the traveller Thdvenot, and from that time the exotic beverage gradually acquired favour. In 1674, an Armenian opened the J first coffee-house in Paris. In this country, coffee was first introduced in 1652, by Mr. Edwards, a Turkish merchant ; he brought home with him a Greek servant, Pasquil Rosea, who opened the first coffee- house in England in St. Michael’s Alley, Cornhill. The Dutch were the first to plant the coffee-tree in their colonies, having procured some berries from Mocha, which they sowed with success in Batavia, about 1 690. An interesting narrative is related of the intro- duction of coffee into the French West Indies. In 1717, several plants were sent to Martinique, under the care of M. de Clieux. The voyage was I fore declared not good for human food.

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