Coffee houses are a staple of modern society, and given how long coffee has been a popular beverage all around the world, we often take for granted that coffee houses have always been around. While they have persisted through history for hundreds of years, they certainly weren’t always as ...
Early European coffee houses were called penny universities. Tea was America’s favorite drink until the Boston Tea Party. Thomas Jefferson called coffee, “the favorite drink of the civilized world.” The Dutch were the first people outside Arabia to grow coffee. ...
Then in the 1950s in coffee houses in America and England, the Beat Movement takes over with jazz and poetry and beatniks sitting around philosophizing. This isn’t much of a stretch from the “penny universities” of old England and the original coffee houses in Arabia. The more things ch...
discuss politics and news of the day, and smoke and drink. They became known as “schools of wisdom” because of theclientelethey attracted, and, though political and religious leaders feared the free and frank discourse common in such establishments, their frequent bans on coffeehouses were impo...
The Seattle-based Starbucks took this model and brought it into mainstream culture.Although coffeehouses today continue to serve their traditional purpose as lively social hubs in many communities, they have noticeably adapted to the times. Rediscovering their purpose as centers of information exchange ...
Coffee, beverage brewed from the roasted and ground seeds of the tropical evergreen coffee plant of African origin. Coffee is one of the three most popular beverages in the world (alongside water and tea) and one of the most profitable international comm
where they sold them to wealthy Italian buyers.Soon, the Dutch began importing and growing coffee in places like Java and Ceylon(largely through slave labor), and the British East India Trading Company was popularizing the beverage in England.Coffee spread across Europe and even reached America.Wh...
In contrast, Americans have a reputation as major coffee drinkers, not least because of the proliferation of coffee houses such as Starbucks across the world. Why the contrast? What turned the United States into a coffee rather than tea drinking nation?
Discover the history of coffee. From an African plant to a worldwide sensation, learn about its journey and stories behind its popularity.
Arab coffee houses became some of the primary places to exchange information and were called “Schools of the Wise.” It also turned out that the Arabian Peninsula was the perfect place to spread the word about coffee. As pilgrims from around the world descended on Mecca to perform the hajj...