Istanbul in the Ottoman Golden Age
You're Dead to Me
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Coffee Houses
In the golden age, o 15 hundred, 16 hundred coffee houses everywhere. The sultans often tried to band them but people desperately want them. If you can't beat them, sou join them. They set up their own coffee houses and make money off it. Talk about being on the grind, which is a both a drug dealing and coffee double pun sir. Ebre tells us about the grand circumcision festival in Adafte. Celebrations for the circumcisions of royal sons were magnificent affairs. A giant kitchen was set up with 500 cooks who prepared food every day. During such festivities, circumcisions would also be provided for thousands of poor boys. We don't imagine ther
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