Tag: Coffee

Inside a Cup of Turkish Coffee: How a Mystic Drink Impacted Politics, Cultures, and Lifestyles In Europe and The Middle East

by Leon Barkho Published on: 6th June 2025

In the centuries since the first coffeehouse was opened in Istanbul (then Constantinople) in 1554, Turkish coffee has brought together people of different classes, cultures, and ranks and helped shape politics and lifestyles, Ali Çaksu,…

How Coffee Created the Modern World

by Media Desk Published on: 19th December 2021

news.harvard.edu: Author Michael Pollan discusses his latest work on the world’s most-used psychoactive substance. It is the world’s most-used drug, one many of us simply refuse to live without, opting for addiction over the loss…

On the Coffee Trail

by Salim Al-Hassani - 1001 Book Chief Editor Published on: 14th December 2021

Coffee is a global industry and the second-largest commodity-based product; only oil beats it. More than 1,200 years ago, as the story goes, a herd of goats and their watchful master, a shepherd, discovered this…

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The Coffee Route from Yemen to London 10th-17th Centuries

by Salah Zaimeche Published on: 11th October 2010

The history of coffee goes at least as far back as the 9th century. From Eastern Africa, coffee spread to Egypt and Yemen. The earliest credible evidence for either coffee drinking or knowledge of the…