This is part II of an article exploring the development of coffee preparation techniques from the 17th Century Ottoman Turks to the Italian Espresso of the mid-20th Century. Part I can be found here We last met in 1838 Paris where the French Balloon style vacuum pot was patented. This high-tech, theatrical method of brewing [...]
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Coffee Preparation Through the Ages, Part II
Posted in Food as Anthropology, Food History, Ingredients, tagged coffee, Food History, History of Coffee Preparation, History of Espresso on October 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Coffee Preparation Through the Ages, Part I
Posted in Food as Anthropology, Food History, Ingredients, tagged coffee, Food History, History of Coffee Preparation, History of Espresso on October 13, 2010 | 10 Comments »
A two part article in which we explore the development of coffee preparation techniques from the 17th Century Ottoman Turks to the Italian Espresso of the mid-20th Century. Europeans have been drinking coffee since about 1615 when Venetian traders obtained it from the Ottoman Turks. The first European coffee house outside of Istanbul opened in [...]
Coffee as it was Served A Thousand Years Ago
Posted in Food as Anthropology, Food History, Ingredients, recipes, Traditional Foodways, tagged ancient coffee recipe, cascara, coffee, dried coffee cherries, history of coffee, quishir, recipe, sufism on April 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It must have seemed like magic, a substance that not only granted boundless energy, but curbed hunger as well. It wasn’t the first drug of course, we’ve had opium, alcohol, and psychedelic mushrooms for a lot longer. But coffee was different. As Balzac wrote: Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to [...]
