Posts Tagged ‘Coffee Houses’
COFFEE HOUSES OF OLD PHILADELPHIA
_Ye Coffee House, Philadelphia’s first coffee house, opened about
1700–The two London coffee houses–The City tavern, or Merchants
coffee house–How these, and other celebrated resorts, dominated
the social, political, and business life of the Quaker City in the
eighteenth century_
HISTORY OF THE EARLY PARISIAN COFFEE HOUSES
_The introduction of coffee into Paris by Thévenot in 1657–How
Soliman Aga established the custom of coffee drinking at the court
of Louis XIV–Opening the first coffee houses–How the French
adaptation of the Oriental coffee house first appeared in the real
French café of François Procope–The important part played by the
coffee houses in the development of French literature and the
stage–Their association with the Revolution and the founding of
the Republic–Quaint customs and patrons–Historic Parisian cafés_
THE COFFEE HOUSES OF OLD LONDON
_One of the most picturesque chapters in the history of coffee–The
first coffee house in London–The first coffee handbill, and the
first newspaper advertisement for coffee–Strange coffee
mixtures–Fantastic coffee claims–Coffee prices and coffee
licenses–Coffee club of the Rota–Early coffee-house manners and
customs–Coffee-house keepers’ tokens–Opposition to the coffee
house–”Penny universities”–Weird coffee substitutes–The proposed
coffee-house newspaper monopoly–Evolution of the club–Decline and
fall of the coffee house–Pen pictures of coffee-house life–Famous
coffee houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries–Some Old
World pleasure gardens–Locating the notable coffee houses_