[MR] Please reply your views

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Michael Houghton wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:16:55PM -0400, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> >
> > The coffee would only be period if you were doing an event set in the
> > Middle East, and even then, only in more secular circles at the beginning
> > of the 16th century.
> >
> According to my "coffee" mug (see also "stunt documentation"), there were
> coffee houses in London by the 1590s...

This article cites 1651 as the first appearance of a coffeehouse in
London.

http://www.superluminal.com/cookbook/essay_coffee.html

-- Istvan (who, as a Sufi at 'A Pilgrim's Tale' was serving coffee, hand
ground and heated properly in a cezve, for socializing and philosophizing
with)

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