M&D Deep Duck Read. First cuppa coffee post

[Mark Kohut]

p.6..."freshly infus'd coffee flows ev'ryplace."....and was associated
with rebellious political activities in Europe. From Venice, it was
introduced to the rest of Europe. Coffee became more widely accepted
after it was deemed a Christian beverage by Pope Clement VIII in 1600,
despite appeals to ban the "Muslim drink." The first European coffee
house opened in Rome in 1645.[24

The Dutch East India Company was the first to import coffee on a large
scale.[25]

When coffee reached North America during the Colonial period, it was
initially not as successful as it had been in Europe as alcoholic
beverages remained more popular. During the Revolutionary War, the
demand for coffee increased so much that dealers had to hoard their
scarce supplies and raise prices dramatically; this was also due to
the reduced availability of tea from British merchants,[29] and a
general resolution among many Americans to avoid drinking tea
following the 1773 Boston Tea Party.[30]

After the War of 1812, during which Britain temporarily cut off access
to tea imports, the Americans' taste for coffee grew. Coffee
consumption declined in England, giving way to tea during the 18th
century.

ed across the Americas.[33] The territory of Santo Domingo (now the
Dominican Republic) saw coffee cultivated from 1734, and by 1788 it
supplied half the world's coffee.[34] The conditions that the slaves
worked in on coffee plantations were a factor in the soon to follow
Haitian Revolution. The coffee industry never fully recovered
there.[35] It made a brief come-back in 1949 when Haiti was the
world's 3rd largest coffee exporter, but fell quickly into rapid
decline.[36]

Coffee was first discovered in Ethiopia; legend has it that a goatherd
found his goats eating some strange berries that made them so lively
that he could not catch them. The substance had made its way to the
Arab Nation by the 15th century, and in 1511 the first Islamic ban on
coffee, by the governor of Mecca, shut down all the coffee houses. But
his superior, the sultan of Cairo, soon stepped in and overruled the
governor.
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