1872 Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks (Mixellany)

Coffee. 135 fifteenth century, but during the following century it encountered both political and religious opposition. In Constantinople the public coffee-houses were closed, the Government apprehending they were the receptacles for disaffection. The religious grievance was that the dervishes had discovered that coffee roasted was a kind of coal, and coal being one of the substances interdicted by Mohammed, was there- fore declared not good for human food. It .was first introduced in Marseilles in 1644, and in Paris in 1657, by the traveller Thevenot, . and from that time the exotic beverage gradually acquired favour. In 1674, an Armenian opened the 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 1690. 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