Posts Tagged ‘New York’
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_