Posts Tagged ‘History’
INTRODUCTION OF COFFEE INTO WESTERN EUROPE
_When the three great temperance beverages, cocoa, tea, and coffee,
came to Europe–Coffee first mentioned by Rauwolf in 1582–Early
days of coffee in Italy–How Pope Clement VIII baptized it and made
it a truly Christian beverage–The first European coffee house, in
Venice, 1645–The famous Caffè Florian–Other celebrated Venetian
coffee houses of the eighteenth century–The romantic story of
Pedrocchi, the poor lemonade-vender, who built the most beautiful
coffee house in the world_
EARLY HISTORY OF COFFEE DRINKING
_Coffee in the Near East in the early centuries–Stories of its
origin–Discovery by physicians and adoption by the Church–Its
spread through Arabia, Persia and Turkey–Persecutions and
intolerances–Early coffee manners and customs_
HISTORY OF COFFEE PROPAGATION
_A brief account of the cultivation of the coffee plant in the Old
World and its introduction into the New–A romantic coffee
adventure_