Posts Tagged ‘Beginnings’
HISTORY OF COFFEE IN OLD NEW YORK
_The burghers of New Amsterdam begin to substitute coffee for
“must,” or beer, at breakfast in 1668–William Penn makes his first
purchase of coffee in the green bean from New York merchants in
1683–The King’s Arms, the first coffee house–The historic
Merchants, sometimes called the “Birthplace of our Union”–The
coffee house as a civic forum–The Exchange, Whitehall, Burns,
Tontine, and other celebrated coffee houses–The Vauxhall and
Ranelagh pleasure gardens_
INTRODUCTION OF COFFEE INTO NORTH AMERICA
_Captain John Smith, founder of the Colony of Virginia, is the
first to bring to North America a knowledge of coffee in 1607–The
coffee grinder on the Mayflower–Coffee drinking in 1668–William
Penn’s coffee purchase in 1683–Coffee in colonial New England–The
psychology of the Boston “tea party,” and why the United States
became a nation of coffee drinkers instead of tea drinkers, like
England–The first coffee license to Dorothy Jones in 1670–The
first coffee house in New England–Notable coffee houses of old
Boston–A skyscraper coffee house_
TELLING HOW COFFEE CAME TO VIENNA
_The romantic adventure of Franz George Kolschitzky, who carried “a
message to Garcia” through the enemy’s lines and won for himself
the honor of being the first to teach the Viennese the art of
making coffee, to say nothing of falling heir to the supplies of
the green beans left behind by the Turks; also the gift of a house
from a grateful municipality, and a statue after
death–Affectionate regard in which “brother-heart” Kolschitzky is
held as the patron saint of the Vienna kaffee-sieder–Life in the
early Vienna cafés_
THE INTRODUCTION OF COFFEE INTO GERMANY
_The contributions made by German travelers and writers to the
literature of the early history of coffee–The first coffee house
in Hamburg opened by an English merchant–Famous coffee houses of
old Berlin–The first coffee periodical, and the first
kaffee-klatsch–Frederick the Great’s coffee-roasting
monopoly–Coffee persecutions–”Coffee-smellers”–The first coffee
king_
THE INTRODUCTION OF COFFEE INTO HOLLAND
_How the enterprising Dutch traders captured the first world’s
market for coffee–Activities of the Netherlands East India
Company–The first coffee house at the Hague–The first public
auction at Amsterdam in 1711, when Java coffee brought forty-seven
cents a pound, green_
THE INTRODUCTION OF COFFEE INTO ENGLAND
_The first printed reference to coffee in English–Early mention of
coffee by noted English travelers and writers–The Lacedæmonian
“black broth” controversy–How Conopios introduced coffee drinking
at Oxford–The first English coffee house in Oxford–Two English
botanists on coffee_
THE BEGINNINGS OF COFFEE IN FRANCE
_What French travelers did for coffee–The introduction of coffee
by P. de la Roque into Marseilles in 1644–The first commercial
importation of coffee from Egypt–The first French coffee
house–Failure of the attempt by physicians of Marseilles to
discredit coffee–Soliman Aga introduces coffee into
Paris–Cabarets à caffè–Celebrated works on coffee by French
writers_